Living The Next Chapter: Recent Episodes
Dave Campbell
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EPISODE 750 - Lauren Kristen Roberts - Gemini Divided, The Breadcrumb Game, Fan Fiction Writing and Author Tips
Author and self-published novelist Lauren Roberts joins us from Northern Virginia to share the winding journey behind her books, her business decisions as an indie author, and the family support that keeps her stories moving forward. She talks about the many places she has lived, raising three teenagers and a dog named Thor, and how superhero fandom and comic books show up in her household culture as naturally as books do.
Lauren pulls back the curtain on the economics of self-publishing, explaining how word count, print costs, trim size, and paper choices all influence the final price of a book and the profit an author can reasonably expect. She describes learning that two novels with very different lengths were earning her different margins despite having the same list price, and how that realization is shaping her approach to her third book. She also explores the intangible impact of a cover that truly fits the genre, acknowledging that while she outsources cover design, a strong visual first impression is crucial for attracting the right readers.
Marketing, for Lauren, is as hands-on as her writing. She keeps inventory in her office so she can sell signed copies at craft fairs, book events, and any local venue willing to host an author table, often driving up to two hours to meet new readers. Her books are distributed through IngramSpark to online retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble, and she has personally approached independent bookstores to get copies onto shelves.
Lauren’s path into fiction began during a lonely season in Virginia Beach, when she was home with three young children, working part-time and craving something creative of her own. She rediscovered writing through fanfiction, using beloved TV series like AMC’s “The Killing” and NBC’s “Blindspot” as playgrounds for practice and experimentation. That fanfiction habit, combined with her husband’s suggestion to create original work she could monetize, led to a framework and characters that eventually became her debut novel.
In Gemini Divided, readers meet Jen, a former military operative working as an assassin to pay for her mother’s chemotherapy. The job fills her with guilt, but she sees no other way to cover the medical bills. Her double life becomes untenable when she is assigned to eliminate her favorite TV actor, the very person she secretly writes fanfiction about. Lauren explains how early drafts lacked a clear reason for Jen’s choices, and how feedback from her own mother forced her to create an emotional and moral foundation that would keep readers invested in a morally complicated heroine.
Her second novel, The Breadcrumb Game, follows Ella, whose house explodes just as she checks the mail, forcing her into an uneasy partnership with a grumpy FBI agent. As they race to learn who is trying to kill her and why, Ella’s childhood “breadcrumb game” with her estranged sister becomes a key to deciphering clues only she can recognize. Lauren hints at a shared universe between The Breadcrumb Game and Gemini Divided, with subtle nods that reward readers who pick up both books without requiring a specific reading order.
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EPISODE 749 - Nicole Ward - Bio-hacking for the Sales Athlete - For Executives, sales leaders, founders, and anyone performing at a high level
Author and corporate executive Nicole Ward joins from Los Angeles to share how a late in life wake up call transformed her health, career, and now her work as an author and podcaster. She describes never really seeing herself as an author until, in her early fifties, inspiration suddenly “volcanoed” into a book idea that connected three areas of expertise in a way she had never seen before. Once she was clear on what she wanted to say, the writing process became energizing rather than intimidating, helped by an editor who protected her natural voice while shaping the manuscript.
Nicole explains why she chose to self publish, after being told traditional publishers might take years to bring her book to market. Encouraged by other authors, she invested strategically in professional editing, book design, and a second editorial review to ensure the book looked and read at a high level. She also built a personal advisory board of thirteen people from diverse backgrounds, asking them for blunt, honest feedback that led to key improvements and helped her refine the final version.
At the heart of the conversation is Nicole’s broader mission: The Executive Athlete. Drawing on her career working with C suite leaders and board members, she is focused on “bringing consciousness to power” by helping high level decision makers regulate their health, manage stress, and extend their healthspan. She demystifies biohacking as simply using data, tools, and targeted supplementation to understand your unique biology and age as well as possible, not as an extreme lifestyle reserved for tech billionaires. Her own journey began when, at thirty five, she was sixty pounds overweight, inflamed, exhausted, and so overworked that after rolling her SUV she worried more about missing a meeting than the accident itself.
Nicole shares practical, accessible strategies for busy professionals, like “exercise snacking” small bursts of movement with bands, light weights, or stairs throughout the day that can add up to real fitness without a 5 a.m. workout. She stresses that supplements are meant to augment, not replace, fundamentals like sleep, nutrition, and recovery, and that meaningful change comes from choosing one or two realistic actions instead of trying to overhaul everything at once. This same ethos shapes her two podcasts: Aon at the Top, where she interviews mid market corporate leaders about their path to the C suite, and The Executive Athlete, focused on executives who prioritize health, wellness, and longevity.
Speaking directly to listeners who feel stuck, unhealthy, or like they always put themselves last, Nicole is candid about once being a “quitter” with her health and pushing it to the bottom of her priority list. She underscores that change is possible at any age by taking small, consistent steps, honoring commitments to yourself, and giving yourself grace when you fall short. Her before and after story, now documented in her book and content, illustrates how rebuilding your health can not only transform your body but also your confidence, leadership, and capacity to show up fully for your family, colleagues, and community.
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EPISODE 748 - Chris A Underwood - The Cold Winter Grid-Down Book Series - Hidden Secrets in the Walls
Author Chris A Underwood invites listeners into the real-world setting behind his Cold Winter series, beginning in the small village of Galena just north of Columbus, Ohio. In this conversation, he describes living in and restoring his historic 1850s home, once the town’s telegraph and later telephone office, where walls stuffed with hidden whiskey and extract bottles hint at the secret lives of past occupants. That same house, town square, and sense of buried history become the spine of his fictional world when a devastating winter power-grid failure throws Ohio into crisis.
Chris traces his lifelong pull toward storytelling, from a third-grade construction-paper book to creative writing classes and an English minor, even as he pursued business, accounting, and computer science to provide for his family. Years later, an interest in “prepping” rekindled his writing, as he asked what ordinary people would do on day one, day two, and beyond after a major event. Those questions evolved into a survival narrative grounded in his own home, his town, and the very real vulnerability of the power grid, inspired in part by the 2003 northeast blackout. He explains how building practical preparedness into his house and imagining life during a prolonged winter outage gave him a believable framework for his story.
A big part of this episode explores how community and craft shaped his work. Chris shares how joining a local writing group transformed his early drafts; honest, sometimes painful critiques pushed him to abandon a confusing first-person approach and rewrite in third person, freeing the story to follow multiple characters and perspectives. He talks about “torturing” his main character, a computer programmer much like himself, and weaving in deeply personal elements, including a son on the autism spectrum who eventually becomes a key hero in book three. For Chris, flawed, everyday people who make mistakes but keep trying are more compelling than perfect saviors.
The conversation also highlights how his research happens on the ground, not just online. To authentically portray helicopters, militias, and river battles, Chris embedded himself with the Army Aviation Heritage Foundation, volunteering at air shows, riding in Huey and Cobra helicopters, and channeling those sensations straight onto the page. He recounts a three-week tour on military bases, where he met new recruits, seasoned officers, and even fellow volunteers from his helicopter group, often giving readers their first signed book and seeing his series become part of their downtime between assignments.
His commitment to living the story extends to historic ships and river locks. Chris spent a month aboard the World War II landing ship LST-325 as it traveled the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, selling books, working in the wheelhouse, sleeping in bunks, and donating thousands of dollars back to the ship’s preservation. He has also shadowed lock workers on the river to capture the feel of barge traffic and infrastructure under strain, later staging key battles in those spaces on the page. Partnerships with museums and naval sites, including a destroyer in Buffalo, have given him insider tours and technical feedback, ensuring his fictional use of real vessels remains accurate while still imaginative.
Throughout the episode, Chris returns to a core theme: using story to explore how ordinary people respond when systems fail, and how community, moral compass, and determination matter as much as gear and tactics. Whether through a young Catholic priest serving as ethical anchor, neighbors opening their doors to stranded travelers, or volunteers keeping aging helicopters and ships alive, his books focus on people choosing to help, even when it is dangerous or inconvenient. He hints at future directions for the Cold Winter universe, including a potential fifth book that would tackle the messy realities of recovery after the grid comes back and society attempts to rebuild.
Key takeaway: This episode shows how deeply lived experience, disciplined feedback, and real-world immersion can turn a “what if” scenario into a rich, human survival saga. Listeners come away with a sense that great fiction can grow directly out of ordinary life, historic places, and a willingness to both receive tough critique and step into the environments you want to write about.
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EPISODE 747 - Spencer Hixon - Urban fantasy novels and short stories - A Sinister Love and Fate and Fortune
Author Spencer Hixon joins the podcast to discuss his journey as a writer, the creative process behind his novels, and the imaginative world he is building through interconnected stories that blend fantasy, romance, and philosophical ideas about fate and time.
Spencer shares how his life has taken him across the United States, from California to Washington DC, South Carolina, and eventually Indiana. Each move was tied to career and family opportunities rather than a desire to relocate, shaping his perspective and experiences along the way. Today he lives near South Bend while continuing to develop a growing body of fiction.
At the center of Spencer’s writing process is organization and structure. With many ideas constantly forming, he keeps a running system of notes and outlines he jokingly calls “Spencer’s brain.” While he often develops multiple story ideas at once, he focuses on writing one project at a time to maintain continuity and clarity. Detailed outlines, character histories, and color coded notes help him track character motivations, reveal background information gradually, and ensure every scene serves the larger narrative.
Character psychology plays a central role in his storytelling. Spencer approaches scenes by mentally stepping into the perspective of every character involved, allowing each one to act according to their own motivations. This method often leads to unexpected turns in the story as characters evolve beyond their original roles. While he usually knows the ending before he begins writing, the journey toward that ending frequently shifts as the characters develop.
His books often experiment with storytelling structure and genre. While they are generally categorized as urban fantasy, Spencer describes them as hybrid stories that combine elements of romance, adventure, and philosophical exploration. He enjoys challenging traditional narrative frameworks such as the hero’s journey and sometimes reverses familiar tropes to create new dynamics between characters.
Spencer’s fictional universe spans two connected trilogies. The first begins with A Sinister Love, a story about a demon named Scribble who works a desk job in purgatory before being sent to Earth to tempt a human. What begins as a humorous romance evolves into a much larger mystery involving conspiracies and the structure of the afterlife. The second storyline, beginning with Fate and Fortune, explores the consequences of altering destiny. In that story, a man who once made a deal to change his fate must travel back through key moments of his life to prevent disastrous outcomes, while each trip through time costs him precious moments from his remaining lifespan.
Through these stories Spencer explores universal questions about choice, destiny, and the moments in life that shape who we become. His work invites readers to consider how small decisions can create lasting consequences and whether changing the past would truly lead to a better future.
https://www.spencerhixon.com/
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EPISODE 746 - Douglas Smith - Character Based Writing, Bundling Short Stories, Spirit Dance and Borderlanz
Author and guest Douglas Smith joins the show from Unionville, just outside Toronto, reflecting on Canadian winters, good coffee, and the long path that led him to finally chase his writing dream in his early forties. He admits he waited too long, always assuming he would “start someday,” until the early death of one of his favorite authors, Roger Zelazny, jolted him into action. Looking back, he wishes someone had told him to simply start, and to begin with short stories instead of aiming immediately at a big novel. For Douglas, short fiction is the ideal training ground: it lets writers experiment with different genres, voices, and techniques across many smaller projects, while also teaching them how to submit, handle rejection, and learn from editors.
That philosophy inspired his book for emerging writers, Playing the Short Game, which walks beginners through why and how to build a career through short fiction, from first draft to contracts and rights management. Douglas describes how writing many short stories gave him a full creative toolbox before he ever tackled novels. He also highlights the emotional journey of early rejections, the encouragement of personalized feedback, and the importance of protecting your rights so you can later reprint stories, resell them, or collect them into your own books.
As an author, Douglas is known for richly developed characters and a distinctly visual, cinematic style. He finds it ironic that readers praise his settings because description used to be his biggest struggle, until a craft lesson on “writing setting as character” helped him anchor description in point of view and emotion. He explains how short fiction forced him to make every word count, hook readers from the first line, and compress full worldbuilding and character arcs into just a few thousand words. Those same skills now strengthen his novels, including his shapeshifter universe (beginning with the story “Spirit Dance” and the novel The Wolf at the End of the World), his Dream Rider Saga trilogy, and a connected near-future post-apocalyptic science fiction project.
Douglas also demystifies short story collections, talking about how he sequences stories to shape a satisfying reader experience, balances length, tone, and genre, and always includes at least one new story to reward dedicated fans. He shares how reviews and endorsements from admired authors can be both powerful and dangerous for writers, recommending that beginners protect themselves from early negative reviews while still learning to use positive feedback as encouragement and promotion. Throughout, he returns to the themes of experimentation, resilience, and generosity: using short fiction to grow your craft, building a backlist that can be repackaged over time, and paying it forward to the next generation of writers.
Key takeaway: Douglas’s journey shows that it is never too late to start writing, and that beginning with short fiction can give you the skills, confidence, and resilience you need to build a lasting, flexible career as an author.
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EPISODE 745 - Scott Clifford Mack - Soccer On Sunday In The Park and Adventures of a Forgotten Man
Author and guest Scott Clifford Mack joins us from Falmouth, Maine, a coastal community with a deep literary tradition and a revolutionary-era history that mirrors his themes of resilience and reinvention. He describes Maine as an introspective place that quietly supports the inner life of a writer, even as he humbly refrains from placing himself among its famous names. Scott shares an early, sobering experience at a publishing seminar where an industry professional bluntly stated that most first novels will never see the light of day. What felt devastating at the time eventually became a foundational lesson about failure, resilience, and the necessity of honest self-assessment. He admits his early work was not as strong as he believed, and that accepting this truth pushed him to improve his craft.
Over the years, Scott has written novels, magazine articles, essays, and short stories, facing both rejection and acceptance. These experiences deepened his confidence and clarified his priorities. He realized he writes primarily for the love of writing itself, not for guarantees of publication or acclaim. For him, joy comes from sitting alone with a story, refining each sentence, and “baking the cake” before worrying about covers and marketing. Scott prefers to keep his voice as pure as possible, resisting heavy editorial direction so his work remains fully his own. He reads widely across genres, studying how other authors structure stories and shape language, and emphasizes that a compelling story is what ultimately carries a reader from first page to last.
Scott’s first published novel, Soccer on Sunday in the Park, grew from lifelong passion and multiple failed attempts to write about the sport he loves. The book centers on a diverse group of everyday people who gather weekly for informal pickup soccer. Through their eyes, he explores three main themes: a grassroots homage to the game, the power of human connection across age, background, and culture, and the importance of adults continuing to play and embrace the humility and resilience that come with games.
His second novel, Adventures of a Forgotten Man, shifts to corporate culture, remote work, and the modern world of employment. Inspired by a real report of remote employees who stopped logging in yet continued to be paid, Scott imagines a man “misplaced” by a large insurance company and explores what happens when work becomes transactional and disconnected. The protagonist’s journey contrasts older, more personal workplace eras with today’s diffuse, digital reality, raising questions about identity, loyalty, and meaning in work.
Throughout the conversation, Scott explains his character-building process, from notebooks and detailed profiles to the surprising way minor figures sometimes grow into pivotal roles. He is especially drawn to “under the radar” people and finding the remarkable in the seemingly unremarkable.
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EPISODE 744 - Luna Westish - Meet Me at the Ruins - The Story of Margo, a Student and Story Set In Scotland
In this episode, author Luna Westish shares the unexpected path that led her to writing and publishing her debut novel, Meet Me at the Ruins. From relocating her family to Mexico City during the pandemic to navigating the realities of self-publishing, Luna reflects on creativity, personal growth, and the lessons she learned along the way.
Luna begins by discussing the major life decision that reshaped her family’s world. After years of talking about living abroad, she and her partner chose the uncertainty of the pandemic as the moment to take the leap. Selling nearly all their belongings and leaving Tacoma, Washington behind, they moved to Mexico City with their children. What began as an experiment quickly turned into a new home as they found community in the vibrant, international city. While Luna still misses the nature and coastline of the Pacific Northwest, the move created space for new experiences and creative exploration.
That sense of experimentation carries into Luna’s approach to writing. Contrary to common advice that writers must produce words daily or follow strict routines, Luna discovered that creativity works best when she allows flexibility. Writing for her happens in bursts of inspiration, often in quiet coffee shops in the morning. Instead of focusing on word counts or rigid goals, she treats writing as a process of curiosity and self-discovery, allowing stories to emerge naturally rather than forcing them.
Her journey into fiction was equally unplanned. Luna spent years writing nonfiction, including academic work, policy reports on climate change, and articles related to small business. Eventually she began writing deeply personal essays about her childhood growing up in a restrictive religious environment. That vulnerable work opened the door to fiction. Inspired by weekly coffee shop writing sessions with her teenager, she started drafting a story that eventually became her novel.
Meet Me at the Ruins follows Margot, a college student studying abroad in Edinburgh in the early 2000s. The novel explores anxiety, identity, relationships, and the search for purpose during a formative stage of life. Set against the atmospheric backdrop of Edinburgh, the story blends elements of coming-of-age, romance, and contemporary literary fiction while focusing on emotional growth rather than a traditional plot-driven arc.
Luna also offers candid insight into the publishing world. After partially releasing the story online, she queried agents and publishers but ultimately chose to self-publish when contracts lacked clarity around responsibilities and timelines. The experience revealed how complex book marketing can be, from building advance reader groups to securing reviews and interviews. Her biggest lesson for aspiring authors: allow far more time for marketing and outreach than you think you’ll need.
Despite the challenges, Luna views the entire process as a learning experience rather than a purely commercial pursuit. For her, writing is about exploration, connection, and sharing stories that resonate emotionally with readers. That same mindset shapes her parenting, encouraging her children to pursue creativity for joy rather than productivity.
https://lunawestish.wordpress.com/
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BONUS - Austin Kleon's Book Series - Why These Books Matter to Authors and Creative People
Austin Kleon’s four books work best when read as one creative roadmap. They move from making original work, to shaping your voice, to sharing your process, to protecting your creative life when things get messy.
Steal, then make it yours
Steal Like an Artist is the spark. Kleon argues that no idea arrives from nowhere, so creators should study what they love, remix it, and turn influence into something personal. The book’s appeal comes from how practical it feels. Readers often praise it for making creativity feel accessible instead of mysterious.
Share the process
Show Your Work! takes the next step. Kleon shifts the focus from finished product to public process, encouraging readers to share small pieces of their work, teach what they know, and build trust over time. The message is clear. People do not only connect with polished results, they connect with the story of how the work gets made.
Keep the fire alive
Keep Going brings the series into real life. It focuses on staying creative through distraction, pressure, and chaos. Rather than chasing inspiration, Kleon emphasizes routine, limits, and steady habits that protect the work. This is the book for people who have started, shared, and now need a way to keep showing up.
(New!) Don’t Call It Art: 10 Ways to Create Like a Kid Again points readers back to play, curiosity, and freedom. It reminds creators to loosen perfectionism and return to the simple joy of making. That foundation matters because the rest of Kleon’s work builds on the idea that creativity starts with action, not permission.
Why read all four
Together, these books form a complete creative framework. Don’t Call It Art opens the door. Steal Like an Artist helps readers find their voice. Show Your Work! teaches them how to build an audience. Keep Going helps them sustain the practice long term.
If you are recommending all four books to listeners, the strongest theme is this: creativity is a practice, not a moment. Play, borrow wisely, share generously, and keep going. That simple arc makes the set worth reading as a collection.
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EPISODE 743 - Luke K Wilson - Science Fiction Author - Icewind and Falcata
Falcata
Author: Luke K. Wilson
Release Date: February 2026
Description:
Falcata is a science fiction epic from Luke K. Wilson
The Maran Ark contains the last of a shattered civilization. These last remaining bands of humans are all that survived the destruction of Mara, their beloved home world, and they’ve been on the run from their enigmatic, unsympathetic enemies ever since. Now, they wander through a devastated, desolate galaxy filled with the ruins and remnants of long-dead empires, as well as pirates and marauders out to prey on anything still living. Only one thing keeps the Marans going: the promise of a new world to call their own and the hope that one day their children will be born beneath and open sky, with soil beneath their feet.
Leanette-14810 is a young girl born into the Ark long after Mara’s destruction. She is raised listening to the horrors of their home world’s fall, as well as the haunting rumors of what lurks outside the Ark’s hull. Now, she must walk a rigid path which prioritizes the collective good, and society’s survival against all odds. She approaches adulthood and a predetermined life as a Maran woman, to never leave the confines and relative safety of the Ark.
But when Leanette is banished from the Ark’s rigid caste system dictated by gender and aptitude, she is thrust into a terrifying world she never knew existed. She eventually realizes the greatest threats facing the Ark’s survival are not outside its hull, but deep within them.
Facebook Author Page:
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My Listing on the Publisher's website:
Falcata - Golden Storyline Books
https://goldenstorylinebooks.com/falcata/
Amazon.com: Falcata eBook : K. Wilson, Luke: Kindle Store
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EPISODE 742 - Eric Clark - The Beekman Affair - The perfect couple, the perfect life, the perfect lie
In this conversation, Eric Clark reflects on his journey as a writer and the deeper themes behind his work. Speaking from San Diego after growing up in New York City, he shares how perspective and lived experience shape both storytelling and personal identity.
Eric emphasizes that writing must begin with love for the craft rather than a focus on publishing or marketability. For him, creativity should remain untainted by the pressures of agents, sales, or audience targeting. The work has to come from an internal need to express something true. Inspiration often arrives unexpectedly, and reading other authors can spark new ideas without becoming plagiarism. Every story ultimately filters through the writer’s unique experiences.
At the heart of his latest novel is an exploration of perspective, change, and the discomfort that comes when deeply held values are challenged. The story follows Claire and Peter, a married couple whose backgrounds shaped them in very different ways. Claire is driven, accomplished, and structured. Peter is reflective, conflict averse, and open. When new neighbors move in and tension rises, existing marital strain surfaces and forces both characters to confront their assumptions.
The novel examines how people evolve over years, not months. Change is gradual and often painful, especially when it challenges identity or stability. Eric draws from his own background as the child of immigrants to portray characters who understand both the inside and the outside of belonging. His writing consistently returns to themes of outsiders navigating systems that may accept them conditionally.
Throughout the discussion, Eric highlights the complexity of social and political perspectives. He avoids caricatures, instead giving sincere voice to multiple viewpoints. The story challenges readers to recognize how easily we forget our own past struggles once we feel secure. It asks what happens when change arrives next door rather than at a distance, and whether we can extend empathy across differences.
Ultimately, Eric writes for readers who remain open to growth. His goal is not to divide but to invite reflection on how we handle change, identity, and community in a complicated world.
New Release: The Beekman Affair
Publication Date: Coming March 17th by Glass Spider Publishing
The perfect couple. The perfect life. The perfect lie.
Clare and Peter Davidson have always looked like they had it all—college sweethearts turned devoted partners, with two bright children and a picture-perfect home in the tight-knit community of Beekman. But behind the manicured lawn and warm smiles lies a marriage quietly unraveling under the weight of secrets, betrayals, and unspoken regrets.
When Beekman itself begins to fracture—factory closures, job losses, neighbors forced to choose sides in a bitter local conflict—Clare and Peter find themselves on opposite ends of a fight that hits closer to home than they ever imagined. As the town’s tensions mount, so do the cracks in Clare’s carefully constructed world.
The Beekman Affair is a gripping story of loss, betrayal, and the quiet courage it takes to reclaim your own life—no matter the cost.
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EPISODE 741 - Anne Beall - The Compassionate Writer - Find Your Voice, Enhance Your Story and Touch Lives
In this episode, author and social psychologist Anne Beall invites listeners into a life shaped by curiosity, compassion, and a deep belief that every person has a story worth telling. She shares how her path from research psychology into the business world and, eventually, into full time writing and literary editing grew out of a desire to understand people more fully and communicate with them more effectively. That journey includes founding and running a market research company for over two decades, selling it, and then dedicating herself to writing books and leading the Chicago Story Press Literary Journal, which focuses on meaningful, insight rich creative nonfiction.
Anne describes how her lifelong love of animals led to exploring the emotional intelligence and depth of connection possible between humans and other species. From service llamas who intuitively comfort residents in assisted living to a pig that can identify English words on a soundboard, she recounts stories that challenge our assumptions about animal awareness and underline her conviction that many beings understand us in ways we barely recognize. Those experiences informed her book about heartfelt connections with animals and reinforced her broader commitment to writing about relationships, empathy, and unseen emotional bonds.
At the heart of the conversation is Anne’s book about compassionate writing and her belief that good storytelling requires a nuanced view of human nature. Instead of dividing people into heroes and villains, she argues that powerful writing reveals everyone as flawed, complex, and deeply human. She explores the difference and overlap between empathy and compassion, suggesting that compassion is not just a feeling but an action: the deliberate effort to understand why people behave as they do, including ourselves. By looking at life’s painful or confusing events through a compassionate lens, writers can find meaning in their experiences and translate that understanding onto the page in ways that help readers see themselves more clearly and judge themselves less harshly.
Drawing on her role as an editor, Anne talks about what makes a story a good fit for a literary journal, why certain themes become overrepresented, and how even strong work can be rejected for reasons beyond an author’s control. She emphasizes persistence, the value of revisiting and strengthening work after repeated rejections, and the reality that numbers and timing often shape publication outcomes as much as quality. Throughout, she returns to the idea that emotional resonance matters most: writers and readers are both seeking stories that illuminate life, particularly around loss, family, identity, and the moments that change us.
Anne also speaks directly to listeners who may not see themselves as writers. She encourages anyone who journals or reflects on their life to view those pages as meaningful work that can bring healing and clarity, especially when approached with self compassion.
Key takeaway: You are worthy of your story. Approaching your life and your writing with compassion – for yourself, your characters, and your readers – can turn painful or confusing experiences into meaningful narratives that touch lives, including your own.
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EPISODE 740 - Carter Vance - A story of living, loving and growing up on Canada's Parliament Hill
In this engaging episode, author Carter Vance shares his writing journey with host Dave, connecting as fellow Canadians. Originally from the small town of Cobourg, Ontario—famous for its literal Big Apple roadside sculpture and summer beach—Carter credits a high school teacher's encouragement for launching his creative path. She connected him with local cafe owners for poetry readings, sparking his early involvement in plays, school magazines, and submissions to prestigious outlets like Arc Poetry Magazine, which offered a mentorship that honed his skills in audience focus, form, and resilience against rejections.
Reflecting on advice he'd give his younger self, Carter emphasizes demystifying publishing, treating writing like a disciplined job—as Stephen King advocates with daily hours—and clarifying one's unique "why" amid abundant content. Creative writing, for him, captures intangible life moments and fosters empathy by letting readers inhabit others' minds, unlike film or music. His diverse career, including policy work in Canada, the UK, Indonesia, and Parliament (as a House leader staffer from 2015-2019 and Senate role), humanized politicians as flawed individuals, revealing unexpected alliances, young staffers' influence, and information's power in decision-making.
Carter's debut novel, Smaller Animals (released November), draws from these experiences, following young Canadian political staffers' relationships and growth amid power dynamics—"smaller animals" behind the spotlight. Comparable to Arthur Phillips' Prague, Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, or Sally Rooney's works, it appeals to politics enthusiasts and character-driven readers alike, requiring no deep parliamentary knowledge. He discusses staff autonomy, grunt work evolving to info control, and hopes readers connect personally while gaining insights into unseen influencers.
Amid recent Canadian tragedies, Carter finds hope in political maturity, rising public engagement, and openness to change. Upcoming: a short story in Plentitude magazine, more writing, and ideas like a Berlin Wall saga.
Key Takeaway: Writing thrives on encouragement, discipline, and authentic voice—craft stories that build empathy and unique perspectives, turning personal experiences into shared connections.
https://cartervance.ca/
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EPISODE 739 - J. Bellante Ward - The Wyrd of Skulda Discover Norns, the three legendary females who control time
In this engaging episode of Living The Next Chapter, host Dave welcomes debut fantasy author J. Bellante Ward, a dental hygienist from Virginia originally from Maryland, who stumbled into writing after a coworker praised her knack for words in a simple professional email. Nervous but thrilled for her first podcast appearance, J. shares how she penned her Norse mythology-inspired series in just two months, embracing her "pantser" style where the plot unfolded organically through character journeys rather than rigid outlines. She discusses battling impatience for instant gratification, learning not to chase perfection—since human imperfections make stories relatable and distinct from AI-generated content—and finding her authentic voice about a quarter into the manuscript, shifting to a more confident tone.
J. dives into her series' core: three Norns controlling past, present, and future, reimagined in a world without cell phones or modern tech to emphasize raw human connections and epic quests. Book one follows Bren, the Norn of the future from a dark kingdom, on a self-discovery path amid romance, "smut," and battles against an evil king seeking to dominate the realms via the tree of life. Unplanned characters like Bren's sarcastic best friend stole her heart, earning future books, while part one builds the world lightly and part two accelerates into non-stop action. She credits advice from patients and fellow authors, like writing the ending at 80% to race smoothly to the finish, and cut filler for a lean, approachable read even for fantasy newcomers.
Marketing challenges surface too: J. finds social media inauthentic and mentally draining, preferring genuine conversations like this interview over forced videos, and pitches her elf-and-mythology tale proudly despite adult awkwardness. A vivid reading from chapter three paints a terrifying swamp creature encounter, drawing from head-to-toe details inspired by quirky YouTube like Salad Fingers. Her real "moment" came from a stranger's glowing review, not pre-sales from supporters. Looking ahead, book two launches soon, with Instagram and Facebook as key follows.
Key Takeaway: Embrace your creative flow without perfectionism—human flaws and organic storytelling connect deepest with readers, proving anyone can birth a world from a spark.
https://www.instagram.com/j.bella.ward.writes/
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EPISODE 738 - Lalitha Ramanathan - Parenting Unplugged and Kanmani and Co - Five Friends and a Cat Tackle the World
In a different lifetime, I worked in Finance, burying myself in MS Excel sheets. One day, I rekindled my passion for writing, and Excel paved way for Word, and my life has never been the same again.
Writing is my oxygen, and I write every single day. Over time, I have amassed millions of words, through stories that encapsulate bits of my soul. My favourite topics include parenting, fiction, children’s stories, and any place where there is scope to insert a pinch of humour.
Now that you are here, wondering what to read?
My stories have found a place in some anthologies. Here, you can find the collections in which my works feature, as well as a sneak peek into my upcoming publications.
https://lalitharamanathan.com/
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Episode 592 - Joe McClean - Screenwriter, Author and Director - Putting Yourself Out There and Into Your Story, That is Where the Opportunity Lies
Joe made a bunch of short films and one feature length movie with friends and no money. To this day, I enjoy watching those early attempts to craft a story, but essentially this era of on-the-job-training was my film school. Now it was time to take my first big swing.
I wrote a script I felt I could raise enough money to shoot myself, a found-footage film, and I spent a year begging for cash and favors. The star of a hit TV show, who had gone to the same high school as me, graciously agreed to act in it. An NBA player made a small investment. Actor, comedian, and Late Show with David Letterman regular, Jay Thomas agreed to make a cameo. The snowball was growing and eventually I scraped together enough cash to direct Life Tracker. The movie played over 20 science fiction conventions and got a digital distribution deal with Charter Communications (now Spectrum) and streamed into millions of American homes.
Life Tracker
Great! Now I needed a follow up to prove that my work ethic couldn't be mistaken for beginner's luck. Taking advantage of a group of talented actor friends and another who owned property outside of Fresno, I wrote and directed a super-low-budget homage to The Big Chill called The Drama Club which can currently be seen on Tubi.
The Drama Club
Looking back from that point, I could see the years of work I'd put in. Meeting people. Working with casts and crews. Going on adventures together. taking risks and building trust. Jobs started to fall into place. I signed my first manager. I joined the Writers Guild of America. I pitched big shot producers at legacy studios and powerhouse production companies. Always searching for that next opportunity. That's when I met Blair Underwood. A business lunch turned into an attachment (and a friendship), and soon I was hitting up everyone I'd ever done business with to see who wanted to join the team.
Viral was written and produced by me, it's directed by and stars Blair, and he shares the screen with Sarah Silverman, Jeanine Mason, and the incomparable Alfre Woodard! The movie is finished and we're actively working with our sales team to bring it to audiences.
In the mean time, I’m working with Amistad (an imprint of HarperCollins Publishing) on a two-book deal titled Sins of Survivors about the plight of a family who lived in the once vital African American neighborhood of Black Bottom in 1930s and 40s Detroit. The first book is currently available everywhere books are sold, and the second hits shelves in the summer of 2026... So, go to your local bookstore's website get your copy!
Why "Ginger Beard," you ask? My wife's maiden name is "Beard," and when our son was born he had a reddish tint to his hair. So, my company is named after my son, my "Ginger Beard"... It's only a bonus that I have red facial hair.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mcclean-6668b018
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0565697/
https://www.gingerbeardfilms.com/
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
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EPISODE 494 - Donny Young - The 4MIDABLES, Inspector Gadget, The Cannonball Run Movie and Putting Yourself Out There
Author and screenwriter Donny Young shares an inspiring journey through a creative career built on persistence, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace opportunity. From writing episodes of Inspector Gadget on a Smith Corona typewriter to developing his newest young adult adventure series, The 4MIDABLES, Donny reflects on the experiences that shaped both his storytelling and his outlook on success.
Listeners are taken behind the scenes of the entertainment industry as Donny recounts how one opportunity naturally led to another. He shares stories from writing for one of television's most beloved animated series, appearing alongside legendary Hollywood stars in The Cannonball Run, and learning valuable career lessons through unexpected encounters with industry icons. Throughout the conversation, a common theme emerges. Creative careers are rarely built through a single breakthrough, but through consistently showing up, saying yes to new experiences, and remaining open to where those experiences may lead.
Donny also introduces The 4MIDABLES, a project that has evolved over many years from an animated television concept into an ambitious young adult novel series. Designed around teamwork, empathy, problem solving, and family friendly storytelling, the series reflects his belief that exciting adventures can inspire young readers without relying on violence or sensationalism.
For aspiring writers, Donny offers thoughtful advice drawn from decades of experience. He discusses the value of studying acting to better understand character, reading widely within your chosen genre, embracing rejection as part of the creative process, and continually improving your craft. Above all, he encourages writers to remain patient with themselves and to remember that every experience adds depth to the stories they will eventually tell.
This conversation is both a celebration of storytelling and a reminder that success often comes from perseverance, preparation, and the courage to keep creating, even when the next opportunity is still out of sight.
Key Takeaway
Creative success is rarely the result of one defining moment. By continuing to learn, putting yourself in places where opportunity can find you, and refusing to let setbacks define your journey, you give your work the best chance to reach the audience it was meant for.
Writer for the iconic “INSPECTOR GADGET” cartoon series.
Inspector Gadget: Volcano Island (Gadget Goes Hawaiian)
Season 1, Episode 15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rlb-BKVhS3g
Extra in Cannonball Run
The Cannonball Run Final Scene and End Credits
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUOaxwA5Wic
Excited to introduce 4 amazing Teens who solve major crimes anonymously!
https://www.instagram.com/the4midables/
Original Publish date: Friday, January 31, 2025
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EPISODE 641 - E K Wise - The Debilis Rising - Keepers of the Rock Book 1, magical realism and earthbound fantasy and M.A.S.H.
E.K. Wise’s endless curiosity about cultural history and geology developed in her youth after living abroad and traveling internationally. She is enticed by multicultural cuisine and will sample almost any food once.
When not creating stories, she’s likely wrangling teenagers, sweating on her stationary bike, reading, or studying cool rocks and minerals.
Wise passionately advocates for learning evaluation, as she and three of her four kiddos (and maybe the dog), have ADHD. She earned degrees in psychology and clinical social work and lives with her family in Southern California.
Book: The Debilis Rising
When you know the Earth is dying, what will you do to save it?
Tessa Horton knows there’s more to life than meets the eye and her unique ability is proof. Tú Chen feels guilty about keeping his ability secret from his parents, but does it to protect them.
The truth about the world is finally unveiled when they are accepted into the College of Geological Evolution, an exclusive international school run by an ancient secret society: the Keepers of the Rock.
The Keepers, bestowed with supernatural abilities connected to the Earth, have a duty to protect the planet and its creatures, so humanity can reverse its accelerating course toward destruction. They alone are aware of the insidious evil that exists in the world: the Debilis—monsters who prey on mankind and willfully manipulate them for their ultimate goal—control of all Earth’s resources and humanity itself.
As they settle in at school, Tessa and Tú are relieved to find they are not alone. However, the pair and their extraordinary classmates soon learn how challenging their destined responsibilities will be. As Keepers, they are forbidden from directly meddling in human affairs and must rely on covert guidance to save humanity.
With the stakes incredibly high, the Keepers must prepare their young scholars to stop the resurging evil. For in truth, “the hand that cradles the rock rules the world.”
Keepers of the Rock: The Debilis Rising is Book One in an exciting and original YA fantasy series by E.K.Wise. If you like secret worlds, crystals, minerals, history, or science you will love this immersive 4-D reading experience!
https://ekwise.com/
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EPISODE 640 - R D Moreno - Zada 5 - Path of the One - A prophecy waits for Connor if he can survive long enough
Retired communication executive after 41 years. Married for the second time to my loving wife of 30 years, with five grown kids between us, and fourteen grandchildren. Our family pets include two small dogs and a large macaw. We are now living in NC. We just finished remodeling our current home. Other hobbies include writing among a host of others, like landscaping and woodworking.
Zada 5 Saga - Connor Balcazar never expected to have a destiny. Though his family has served the galactic empire for generations, his older brother Adam has always outshone him in combat abilities and natural charisma. The brothers are the best of friends, but Connor is determined to prove himself and master his hidden ability to see the future to assist Emperor Esteban any way he can.
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EPISODE 639 - Deepa Anappara - Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line, Letters to a Writer of Colour and The Last of Earth
Deepa Anappara’s debut novel Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line was named as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time and NPR. It won the Edgar Award for Best Novel, was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020, and shortlisted for the JCB Prize for Indian Literature. Time included it in its list of ‘The 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time’. It has been translated into over twenty languages.
Anappara is the co-editor of Letters to a Writer of Colour, a collection of personal essays on fiction, race, and culture, published by Random House (US) and Vintage (UK) in 2023.
Her second novel, The Last of Earth, will be published by Random House in the US, and Penguin Random House in India, in January 2026, and by Oneworld in the UK in February 2026.
She has a PhD in Creative-Critical Writing and an MA in Creative Writing (Prose Fiction) from the University of East Anglia, Norwich. She teaches creative writing and is a mentor on the South Asia Speaks mentorship programme for emerging writers in South Asia.
Anappara was born in Kerala, southern India, and worked as a journalist in India for eleven years. Her reports on the impact of poverty and religious violence on the education of children won the Developing Asia Journalism Awards, the Every Human has Rights Media Awards, and the Sanskriti-Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism.
Book: THE LAST OF EARTH
From the award-winning author of Djinn Patrol on the Purple Line comes a stunning historical novel set in nineteenth-century Tibet that follows two outsiders—an Indian schoolteacher spying for the British Empire and an English “lady” explorer—as they venture into a forbidden kingdom.
- Tibet is closed to Europeans, an infuriating obstruction for the rapidly expanding British Empire. In response, Britain begins training Indians—permitted to cross borders that white men may not—to undertake illicit, dangerous surveying expeditions into Tibet.
Balram is one such surveyor-spy, an Indian schoolteacher who, for several years, has worked for the British, often alongside his dearest friend, Gyan. But Gyan went missing on his last expedition and is rumored to be imprisoned within Tibet. Desperate to rescue his friend, Balram agrees to guide an English captain on a foolhardy mission: After years of paying others to do the exploring, the captain, disguised as a monk, wants to personally chart a river that runs through southern Tibet. Their path will cross fatefully with that of another Westerner in disguise, fifty-year-old Katherine. Denied a fellowship in the all-male Royal Geographical Society in London, she intends to be the first European woman to reach Lhasa.
A polyphonic novel about the various ways humans try to leave a mark on the world—from the enduring nature of family and friendship to the egomania and obsessions of the colonial enterprise—The Last of Earth confirms Deepa Anappara as one of our greatest and most ambitious storytellers.
https://www.deepa-anappara.com/
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EPISODE 638 - Janet Skeslien Charles - Author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan's Book Brigade comes a charming and cinematic multi-cast audiobook, The Parisian Chapter
Janet Skeslien Charles is the New York Times, USA Today, and #1 international bestselling author of The Paris Library, Moonlight in Odessa, Miss Morgan's Book Brigade (called The Librarians of Rue de Picardie in the UK and Commonwealth), and the audiobook The Parisian Chapter. Her essays and short stories have appeared in the Chicago Tribune, The Sydney Morning Herald, and the anthology Montana Noir.
Her work has been translated into 40 languages. Janet was born and raised in Montana. After graduating from the University of Montana, she got a job teaching English in Ukraine. She later went to France intending to teach for a year, and has been there ever since. Place is at the heart of every story she has ever written. She loves traveling, spending time with friends and family, and researching stories of forgotten people and places.
The Parisian Chapter
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Library and Miss Morgan’s Book Brigade comes a charming and cinematic multi-cast audiobook following a young woman from Montana who lands a job in the American Library in Paris, where she discovers the power of storytelling and writes her own Parisian chapter.
https://www.jskesliencharles.com/
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EPISODE 637 - Jann Alexander - Unspoken - Historic Texas during the Dirty Thirties and beyond
About Jann Alexander
I'm an author, photographer, and artist.
My characters face down their fears, in novels that are as close-to-true as fiction can get.
I specialize in time travel. Read Unspoken, my best-selling novel and the first in my Dust series that stars historic Texas during the Dirty Thirties and beyond. Explore my photography featuring Vanishing Austin, Mother Earth, and Texana. Journey into the American southwest and Mexico, along the Mission Trail, as I capture the colors in my paintings and photos.
"Jann Alexander's blazingly alive novel Unspoken asks how do we keep a family intact? Especially during a time of upheaval and betrayal in the 1930s Dust Bowl? Here, in a story told by both a mother and her daughter, two people struggle to both understand their world and each other."
— CAROLINE LEAVITT, New York Times bestselling author of
Pictures of You and Days of Wonder
Upheaval, betrayal, estrangement, families lost and found, poverty, and homelessness, are the themes we wake up to in today's headlines. In the 1930s, the Texas Dust Bowl was no different — with one exception. Nobody knew how to fix air you couldn't breathe.
https://www.jannalexander.com/
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EPISODE 636 - Gil Merrick - Haunted Victory, Come September, Olympics and Horses
Born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, Gil Merrick attended Hiram College, earning a BA in International Finance and German. Upon completing his MBA at Cleveland State University, he began a forty-year career managing companies throughout the U.S., Europe, and Asia. An avid horseman with credits as Team Leader for the U.S. Equestrian Federation at the 2007 Pan American Games and the 2008 Olympic Games, he now devotes himself full-time to writing in South Florida.
Book: Haunted Victory: Healing From Childhood Sexual Abuse and the Decades of Addiction That Followed - A small and effeminate boy—bullied for years while growing up in an alcoholic family in suburban Cleveland—Gil finds refuge in the equestrian world. A coach instills in him the dream of going to the Olympics and becomes his mentor, his guide—and his predator.
Gil survives rape, betrayals, setbacks, and the loss of family and friends—all while on a quest to fulfill his dream. This book is not only about surviving; it's about the resilience of the human spirit and the pursuit of dreams against all odds. Gil makes it to the Olympics, but not in the way he imagined. He discovers what happens when a dream ends, and all you have left are your addictions.
What does it take to finally realize that our lives can’t go on as they are? How do we put an end to our self-destructive ways? Is it even possible to grasp the complexities of untreated and unrealized trauma? How do we come to terms with the cost of the abuse we suffered?
Gil tells his story with a breadth of detail and thought-provoking insights rarely shared by male victims of sexual abuse. Readers will find a story of hope, determination, and the transformative power of confronting one's past.
Book: A small and effeminate boy—bullied for years while growing up in an alcoholic family in suburban Cleveland—Gil finds refuge in the equestrian world. A coach instills in him the dream of going to the Olympics and becomes his mentor, his guide—and his predator.
What does it take to finally realize that our lives can’t go on as they are? How do we put an end to our self-destructive ways? Is it even possible to grasp the complexities of untreated and unrealized trauma? How do we come to terms with the cost of the abuse we suffered?
Gil tells his story with a breadth of detail and thought-provoking insights rarely shared by male victims of sexual abuse. Readers will find a story of hope, determination, and the transformative power of confronting one's past.
Book: Come September - Ryan Jackson is a shy, scrappy teenager from a poor Appalachian town. Kip Reynolds is a talented high school polo player from a wealthy family living in the suburbs of Detroit. Sharp and stunning, Claudia Kinzler wins the admiration of both young men before her world is shattered by her father’s death in the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks.
With unforgettable characters and emotionally charged storytelling, this novel explores what binds us and what breaks us, the power of strength and perseverance, and how truth and forgiveness can be the key to reconciling the pain of our past and building a new life.
https://www.gilmerrick.com/
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EPISODE 635 - Deb Coviello - The CEO’s Compass - Your Guide to Get Back on Track
This episode features Deb Coviello, author of The CEO’s Compass: Your Guide to Get Back on Track, who shares her inspiring journey of rediscovering her creative voice and becoming a published author and sought-after speaker. Based in Cincinnati, Ohio, Deb reflects on overcoming self-doubt and imposter syndrome, encouraging aspiring authors and leaders to recognize their unique gifts and take courage to share their stories.
Deb recounts how she reconnected with her creative roots through writing, moving from technical writing and corporate roles to launching her author career and consulting business. Her book offers a practical framework—a compass with seven points—to help leaders and individuals align with their purpose, improve their performance, and ultimately find peace of mind. She emphasizes that no one is a finished project; growth and self-improvement are continual.
A key message from Deb is to reject the narrative of being broken or inadequate, and instead embrace support systems and self-belief. She encourages listeners to start by acknowledging their strengths and to approach challenges with discipline and reflection. Deb also highlights how impactful even reaching one person through your work can be—creating ripple effects that extend far beyond a single interaction.
Throughout the conversation, Deb shares insights into leadership struggles, the importance of staying purpose-driven amidst daily pressures, and the value of stepping back to evaluate what truly adds value in work and life. She speaks candidly about balancing professional ambitions with personal fulfillment and the joy of helping others through her voice and message.
Listeners will find inspiration not just in Deb’s story, but practical tools and encouragement to begin their own creative journeys, overcome fears, and live more purposefully in their next chapters.
Key Takeaway:
Your unique voice and perspective matter. By embracing growth, seeking support, and aligning with your purpose, you can overcome doubt and make meaningful impact—whether as an author, leader, or in any role where your message can inspire change.
In this book you will find:
- The real reason you’re feeling off track… and no, it has nothing to do with your expertise!
- A seven-point assessment you can use to find the problem in days…not months!
- Why your peace of mind is critical for the success of you and your organization
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EPISODE 634 - Kelly Farley - He Lost His Baby Too, Survival Guide for the Grieving Dad and Grieving Dads
If you have ever loved a child, then you understand what it’s like to love someone more than you love life itself. If you have ever lost a child, then you understand more about hell than anyone could possibly be expected to know. This isn’t something you get over. Only those who have lost a child can understand the depths to which this pain travels. Like most of the men who will read these books, I too am a grieving dad.
The message I want bereaved fathers to understand is that I know it’s hard, I know it hurts, I know it’s scary — but you can get through this. You can survive. It will be the hardest thing you will ever experience; it will drain you physically, mentally, and emotionally. You can come out on the other side of this very long and lonely tunnel, but you will be a different person when you do. There is no going back to the old you.
You also need to know that you are not alone in your grief. Other men have been through this and that the emotions they keep inside are the same emotions all of us experience, even if we don't talk about them. The best thing you can do is to reach out for help and to know it is not a sign of “weakness” to do so. Instead, it’s a sign of courage and strength — the kind that’s required to face this battle head on.
Book: He Lost His Baby Too
Survival Guide for the Grieving Dad
This book was written specifically for fathers grappling with the unbearable aftermath of losing a baby. It is all too easy for a bereaved father to succumb to a haunting sense of isolation after such a loss. However, within these pages lies a lifeline—a survival guide infused with wisdom, providing a roadmap through the complicated path of grief.
In the wake of a tragic loss—whether it be a miscarriage, a stillbirth, or the untimely passing of an infant—this invaluable resource unravels the layers of anguish that overwhelm grieving fathers. Written by a grieving dad, this book offers unflinching honesty and poignant insight, it also delves into the raw pain that accompanies such a profound loss, assuring these men that their emotions, however overwhelming, are both valid and shared by others who have walked a similar path.
Book: Grieving Dads
To the Brink and Back
A collection of candid stories from grieving dads that were interviewed over a two-year period. The book offers insight from fellow members of, in the haunting words of one dad, “this terrible, terrible club,” which consists of men who have experienced the death of a child. This book is a collection of survival stories by men who have survived the worst possible loss and lived to tell the tale.
They are real stories that pull no punches and are told with brutal honesty. Men that have shared their deepest and darkest moments. Moments that included thoughts of suicide, self-medication, and homelessness. Some of these men have found their way back from the brink, while others are still standing there, stuck in their pain. The core message of Grieving Dads is “you’re not alone.” It is a message that desperately needs to be delivered to grieving dads who often grieve in silence due to society’s expectations.
https://www.grievingdads.com/
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EPISODE 633 - Chris Kruger - Walking Away from the Ledge - A Soldier's Memoir, the raw truth of war, survival, and self-destruction
Walking Away from the Ledge: A Soldier's Memoir
Walking Away from the Ledge is a hard-hitting, no-BS military memoir that goes beyond the battlefield to expose the raw truth of war, survival, and self-destruction. With an unapologetic voice and brutal honesty, Chris takes readers deep inside the challenging world of an Army Ranger, the brotherhood that holds soldiers together, and the personal demons that threaten to tear them apart.
More than a war story, this book is about what happens when the fight doesn’t end—the toll of combat, the grip of addiction, and the struggle to hold onto love when everything else is falling apart. This memoir hits hard, digs deep, and refuses to look away.
https://paradedeck.com/news/author/christopher-kruger
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E632 - Shelley Grandy - Devious Web - A bingeworthy mystery thriller through business and politics
Shelley Grandy, Canadian author of the tech‑thriller Devious Web, joins the show to talk about her path from journalism and corporate communications into fiction, and how her real‑world experience in high‑tech and politics shaped the novel. Born in Timmins and now living in Trenton, Ontario, Shelley spent years as a reporter and then as a writer in the telecom and fibre‑optics world, eventually running her own PR firm. That background in data, networks, and media handling feeds directly into Devious Web, which follows Tom Oliver, a Toronto tech CEO whose data‑analytics company becomes the center of a dangerous conspiracy just as he’s about to sell to a Silicon Valley buyer. The story weaves together business intrigue, family tensions, politics, and a homicide investigation led by Tom’s detective friend, with Shelley using interviews and media moments in the book to naturally explain complex technology and U.S. issues like gerrymandering for general readers.
Shelley also opens up about the reality of being a debut novelist later in life: finishing the manuscript isn’t the finish line, it’s the starting gun. She describes the emotional and practical challenges of claiming the title “author,” battling imposter syndrome, and then having to learn social media, build a website, start a newsletter, and get comfortable showing up in public to market the book. For someone used to writing behind the scenes, events like speaking at the National Women’s Show in Toronto, experimenting with Instagram, and nurturing an email list are all part of what she calls “The Journey”—the ongoing process she chronicles on her blog. Her training as a journalist still shapes her fiction: she writes in tight, scene‑based chapters that she can easily imagine on screen, focuses on strong openings, and then has to consciously slow down to add colour, atmosphere, and richer description.
A big part of the conversation dives into how Devious Web blends entertainment with timely themes. Shelley talks about drawing on her long‑standing interest in U.S. politics—especially the Trump era and debates over democracy—to bring gerrymandering, data analytics, and the misuse of personal information into the plot without turning the book into a lecture. She explains gerrymandering in plain language, connects it to modern data‑driven targeting, and hints at how the wrong hands using the right software could tip the balance of power, all while keeping the focus on mystery, character, and suspense. The book also reflects her personal passions: there’s a romantic subplot, horses and equestrian life, Canadian settings she knows intimately (from Toronto restaurants and banks to Honey Harbour and Caledon stables), and vivid secondary characters like Patrick, the charming Irish “bad boy” whose Las Vegas misadventures were especially fun for her to write. Shelley even shares how she fact‑checked locations after the pandemic by revisiting them in person, turning research into a kind of mini‑adventure.
https://www.shelleygrandy.com/
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EPISODE 631 - Tia Lashay - Question of Affection, A heartfelt journey of vulnerability, courage and love
Book: Question of Affection - Ian is a self-reliant pharmacist in her late 30s, navigating the labyrinth of love and loss. With a past marred by heartbreak, Ian has been searching for the missing piece to complete her life. Her journey turns unexpectedly when she meets Wyatt at a speed-dating event, sparking a glimmer of hope that true love might be within reach. However, life throws her a curveball when she finds herself drawn to her enigmatic female neighbor, challenging her perceptions and stirring up emotions she's never faced before.
As Ian delicately balances these newfound relationships, she embarks on a path of self-discovery, exploring the multifaceted nature of her heart. Delve into Ian's world, where love knows no bounds, and learn how embracing one's true self can lead to the most profound connections. Will Ian find the courage to embrace her desires and redefine her understanding of love? Join her on this heartfelt journey of vulnerability, courage, and the beautiful complexities of sexuality and growth.
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Episode 630 - Sheral DeVaughn - The “Word Whisperer.” She is a 3-time #1-rated radio morning show host, podcast host, keynote speaker and professional emce
Sheral DeVaughn is a 3-time, #1-rated radio morning show host and podcast host. She is a sought after speaker impacting global audiences and is the voice on commercials and marketing promotions nationwide. She is the founder of Speaking with Sher, a Communication Strategy Consultation service connecting your voice and your message to your ideal audience.
The Frog Book
Sheral DeVaughn takes you on an adventure where there are no fairy godmothers nor white knights in shining armor, but there still are steps you can take to get to your “happily ever after.”
Using anecdotes of her own personal struggles, and professional obstacles in both the radio and wine and spirit industries, she masterfully tells stories and gives you steps on how to overcome your own hurdles and find your voice once again.
Part autobiography, part motivational book, part self-help primer, you’ll find a piece of your own story within the pages, and discover where you might be holding yourself back, how to come to terms with life’s scars and baggage, and how to get yourself to the finish line of a life that is fulfilling and joyful.
If you’ve ever felt like you have an “invisible voice” and struggle to be heard, then The Frog in Your Throat is the unconventional primer you need to leap over life’s hurdles and open the door to a more satisfying life experience.
https://thefroginyourthroat.com/
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EPISODE 629 - Allison Cundiff - Hey, Pickpocket - Is it possible to leave behind one life and find a new one
Allison Cundiff’s publications include the novel Hey Pickpocket (2025, JackLeg Press), two books of poetry: Otherings (2016, Golden Antelope Press), and In Short, A Memory of the Other on a Good Day, co-authored with Steven Schreiner, (2014, Golden Antelope Press), and two chapbooks: Snapshot (2023, Bottlecap Press), and Just to See How It Feels (2018, Word Press). Her second novel, The Mysterious Women of J Road is forthcoming in March of 2026 (April Gloaming).
She is a graduate of the University of Missouri (MA English Literature, MEd Secondary Education) and Truman State University (BA English Literature). She teaches at Lindenwood University and at Parkway North High School.
Book: Hey Pickpocket
“Is it possible to leave behind one life and find a new one? This is the provocative question ‘Hey, Pickpocket’ poses, and the result is a deeply felt exploration of grief, redemption, and the human heart. Spanning cultures and continents, foggy mornings on the Arans and hazy memories of the States, Allison Cundiff's debut novel probes the eternal riddle of home, the enduring allure of hope.”
-Jeffrey Zuckerman
https://www.allisoncundiff.net/
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EPISODE 628 - Nicholas Casbarro - Vitalerium, A novel was written at 36,000 feet - the narrative of Roman Matthews
Welcome to the Vitalerium Universe
A Sci-Fi Series By Nicholas Keating Casbarro
A dark, thrilling odyssey that will challenge everything you think you know about humanity’s future. Seven centuries from now, the stars are both a refuge and a battlefield, where ambition, deception, and survival collide.
Hailed as a critically acclaimed sci-fi epic, Vitalerium – Descent into the Void delivers a relentless adventure filled with political intrigue, forbidden power, and cosmic mystery. Will you uncover the secrets that lie beyond the void—or be consumed by them?
Nicholas Casbarro
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1990. He attended Northeastern University’s Doctor of Physical Therapy Program in Boston, class of 2013. Though he never practiced, he maintained his curiosity and love for the sciences. After college, he worked in the medical device field with a specialty in wound-healing and burn treatment. In 2021, he joined a regenerative medicine company where he would spend five days a week on a plane, traveling the country to work with burn surgeons and victims. While flying, he experienced a spark of inspiration, and decided to follow the thread. Since childhood, he had a deep love for science fiction, growing to appreciate the greats in sci-fi like Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Frank Herbert, Isaac Asimov, and many others. Nicholas used his time on countless flights to create the Vitalerium Series and its universe. The majority of the Vitalerium novel was written at 36,000 feet. He has seven books planned in the Vitalerium Series and continues to craft the narrative of Roman Matthews.
https://vitaleriumseries.com/
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EPISODE 627 - Cameron Reuben Hudson - Actor, Writer and Author - the novel series, Preter-Human Chronicles
Cameron Reuben Hudson
the founder of Hudson Media Collective™, is a uniquely multifaceted artist who is always creating new works and telling stories for future generations to remember.
Whether he's writing a new book for his upcoming novel series
"Preter-Human Chronicles"™ or exploring a new character on film,
(Watch his acting debut in J&M Productions' Reacher)
There is always something bright shining on Hudson's horizon.
You'll often find him mingling and collaborating with new artists to create meaningful stories people can relate with and look up to.
Hudson Media Collective redefines storytelling by seamlessly blending film production and book publishing under one creative house.
We are committed to crafting innovative, immersive narratives that captivate audiences across multiple mediums, pushing the boundaries of how stories are told, experienced, and remembered.
https://www.hudsonmediacollective.com/
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EPISODE 626 - Suzanne Parry - The Soviet Experience Through Historical Fiction, Pentagon Tour, Iron Maiden of Stockholm
Raised in a quiet rural corner of western New York State, I didn’t always want to be a writer. I was, however, always surrounded by books. Bookcases in every room. Entire walls of them. My mother was an avid reader and regular trips to the library were part of my childhood. My stepfather was a creative writing professor and words floated through the rooms and into the nooks and crannies of that pre-Civil War era farmhouse. Books weren’t my escape so much as they were part of my daily diet.
At twenty I made a list of things I wanted to accomplish and “write a book” was on it. That list included both measurable things like “learn five foreign languages” and “complete a significant athletic achievement” and less quantifiable items like “make the world a better place.” During the Cold War of my high school and college years, I very much wanted to help reduce the possibility of conflict between the US and the USSR.
I earned a bachelor’s degree at Purdue University, and then continued my Russian studies at the Pushkin Russian Language Institute in Moscow. I studied Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, received a Master’s in 1982 and started a career in public service with the US Department of Defense. My work in the Office of the Secretary of Defense focused on European security issues between NATO, Warsaw Pact, and neutral nations.
While at the Pentagon I helped negotiate the Conference on Disarmament in Europe, the first security agreement of the Gorbachev era. At the Stockholm talks as we often called the CDE, a number of my European colleagues jokingly called me the “Iron Maiden of Stockholm” in a not altogether flattering reference to British PM Margaret Thatcher, the original tough-as-nails female negotiator. The many months I spent crafting an agreement with diplomats from thirty-five nations, sitting at a table alongside NATO colleagues and opposite Soviet and Warsaw Pact counterparts, was my great honor.
After this heady time, I put most of my energy into raising a large family (requiring its own negotiating skills). Funny enough, having a family was not on that list and yet today I would say without hesitation that the most impactful (and most difficult) thing I’ve ever done is raise four children.
I lived in several countries, including the former Soviet Union, Belgium, Sweden, Singapore, and Germany. Throughout adulthood I’ve been a committed runner. I’ve completed dozens of marathons in more than twenty countries, including the fifty-six-mile Comrades Marathon in South Africa.
I eventually landed in the wonderful and welcoming city of Portland, Oregon as a single parent. There, I coached high school cross country and track at a large public high school before deciding it wasn’t too late to dust off that forty-year-old list and write a book.
I now divide my time between Portland and Washington, DC, but also travel for fun, for research, and best of all, to visit my children and grandchildren.
https://suzanneparrywrites.com/
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EPISODE 625 - Urmi Hossain - Discovering Your Identity, A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle
About the author
Introducing Urmi Hossain, a published author of "Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle". With an extensive finance background, she works full-time in the financial services industry and firmly believes in the adage "higher the risk, higher the return". Urmi is an avid opportunity seeker and is dedicated to continuous self-improvement and lifelong learning. During her leisure time, she enjoys reading and refining her public speaking skills, as well as advocating for women's empowerment. Urmi is not solely an author, but also an accomplished blogger, YouTuber, speaker, and mentor for young women. Her life philosophy revolves around the notion that anything is attainable if it is genuinely desired. Let's #beagogetter
Book: Discovering Your Identity: A Rebirth From Interracial Struggle
Do you ever feel like the challenges you face as a brown girl are unique to you or experienced universally? Are you living in a culture where others control your life to maintain their reputation in the community? Do you feel like you're living in a bubble, unable to share your point of view? This book tells the story of a brown girl who grew up in Italy with Bengali parents who wanted her to be the perfect and obedient Bengali girl. Through reflections and confessions, she shares her experiences growing up as a third-culture kid and the struggles many South Asian girls face.
https://www.iambrownstyle.com/author/urmi-hossain/
https://www.instagram.com/urmamio/
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EPISODE 624 - Beverly Burch - What You Don't Know - One contrary ghost, two women, three triangles
About the author
My newest book is the novel, What You Don't Know. I also have four collections of poetry and two nonfiction books. My work has won a Lambda Literary Award, a John Ciardi Prize, a Gival Poetry Prize and was a finalist for Audre Lorde Award. I live in the Bay Area with my wife and two Maine coon cats, Mac & Zadie.
Praise For What You Don’t Know
“A dazzling story, containing so much more than the width of its spine. Love is all over the place in this novel, and you don’t know which way it will turn next, and you stay glued to the page to find out. Burch reminds us that life is complex and dynamic and we really don’t know what might happen next.”
—Nina Schuyler, award-winning author of In This Ravishing World
“Dreamy and poetic, What You Don’t Know chronicles the awakening of two young women to the intertwined forces of grief and desire. Set in soul-freeing San Francisco and music-rich Nashville, this immersive novel deeply explores the hearts of its characters.”
—Lucy Jane Bledsoe, award winning author of Tell the Rest
One contrary ghost, two women, three triangles, four children: What You Don’t Know is a bisexual love story from the Music City, the Blueridge Mountains and the Bay Area.
Chloe, beautiful, whip-smart, flees a difficult childhood and sexual betrayal to the Bay Area where she falls in love with a woman. Afraid of this love, she devotes herself to making money instead. At 29 she moves to Nashville and meets Peter, a producer whose wife Angie recently died. Angie still seems to be around though, quietly coaching Chloe about Peter and helping her twin sister Rosie through grief. Rosie is devastated by the loss of Angie and dislikes Chloe immediately, that is, until she becomes intrigued by her. After Chloe marries Peter, their relationship grows close, displeasing Angie. Chloe realizes she’s in love with Rosie, creating yet another triangle. A terrible accident ensues that upends everyone’s lives again, but bringing Chloe home to her true desires.
https://www.beverlyburch.com/
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EPISODE 623 - Bonnie Moore - Buried Bones - A Maggie Anderson Mystery - When a vacation turns deadly, justice is served
About the author
Bonnie Moore is a semi-retired attorney, accountant, management consultant, and Golden Girls Network's founder.
A former senior consultant at a CPA firm in Washington, D.C., she developed financial processes and investigated improprieties in governmental organizations. Her self-help book "How to Start a Golden Girls Home," earned widespread media coverage in 2015. An avid traveler, Bonnie has explored remote corners of the world, from archaeological digs in France to a safari in South Africa.
In 2017, she retired to Utah to be near family and pursue her dream of writing, resulting in her debut novel, "Buried Bones."
Book: Buried Bones
A murder in small-town Utah, a town full of secrets, and a retired prosecutor's determination to expose the truth-can the killer's identity be revealed before a family with hidden secrets and everything to lose stop the prosecutor?
While vacationing in the mountains east of Ogden, Utah, retired prosecutor Maggie Anderson learns about the discovery of Audrey Stillman's body buried near the home she once shared with her former husband, Ben. Maggie witnesses Ben threatened by a gang of local cowboys and the town quickly blames him.
Haunted by her past failure to save another innocent man, Maggie offers Ben help and begins investigating.
As she delves into the case, Maggie uncovers ties between Audrey's murder and the influential Stevenson family, who control much of the town's political and economic life. It's discovered Audrey was pregnant when she died, and Maggie suspects the father may be the killer. But the deeper Maggie digs, the more secrets she uncovers-secrets that certain powerful people will go to great lengths to protect.
With help from the district attorney and her growing connection to her friend Robert, Maggie secretly collects DNA samples
https://www.bonniemoorebooks.com/
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EPISODE 622 - Diana Harmon Asher - Author of Sidetracked, Upstaged, and Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz
I’m Diana Harmon Asher, the author of Sidetracked, Upstaged, and the upcoming Trouble Finds Evie Lefkowitz.
It took me a long time to get a book published. A really long time.
There were a lot of “no’s” before I got to “yes.” But I kept writing and I kept learning. Finally, I wrote Sidetracked, and the answer was “yes!”
One of my teachers used to say that every character you create contains a piece of yourself. I definitely share a lot of worries with Joseph, and I’d like to think I’m a good friend like Heather. I’m an opera fan like Grandpa and I love Inishbofin sheep and Dickens, like Mrs. Fishbein. I hope I have some of Cassie’s goofiness in me, and like Paul, I’ll never fit in with the cool kids. I share Shira’s shyness, some of her stage experience (see photo) and a lot of her stage fright.
Like my newest character, Evie, my father was a cantor at our synagogue (something you’ll find out more about in the book), and he passed away when I was young. But also like Evie, I was surrounded by love and good friends. I never really did get into a lot of trouble…but maybe I should have! I hope I share Evie’s resilience, her optimism, and most of all, her sense of humor.
Writing itself makes me happy. But knowing that readers are enjoying my books is even better. I love when kids identify with Heather, or when a student proudly announces that they have ADD just like Joseph. I love the thought that some of you might be encouraged to strive for your own personal record, audition for a show, try out for a team, stick up for an old friend, and be open to new ones.
And I hope all of my stories give you a few chuckles along the way.
I look forward to meeting and hearing from more of you in the months and years to come!
https://dianaharmonasher.com/
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EPISODE 621 - Deborah Lee Luskin - Hunting for Your Next Great Read - Reviving Artemis - The Making of a Huntress
Deborah Lee Luskin earned a PhD in English Literature from Columbia University and expected to become an academic, not a deer hunter. She moved from New York City to Vermont for the summer in 1984, fell in love with the landscape, the community, and the new doctor in town. Forty years later, she’s still in Vermont, where she’s raised daughters, taught, and—always—wrote.
Luskin’s novel, Into the Wilderness (White River Press, 2010) a love story set against the backdrop of Vermont’s political sea-change in 1964, won the Independent Publishers Gold Medal for Regional Fiction and praise from the Vermont Library Association for its “sense of place.”
Luskin started her career in print, penning her first professional column from France while in high school. Her work has since appeared in newspapers and magazines; been broadcast on public radio; and sent into cyberspace in blogs.
Luskin spent more than thirty-five years driving all over Vermont, delivering literature-based humanities programs for the Vermont Humanities Council to parenting teens, new adult readers, educators, life-long learners, healthcare workers, and prison inmates. She has lectured widely and taught countless writing workshops. Since 2016, Luskin has been facilitating the on-going Rosefire Writing Circle, a place to write in community and with support.
Engaged in civic life, Luskin practiced restorative justice as a volunteer at the Brattleboro Community Justice Center and served as the elected Town Moderator in Newfane, Vermont.
All along, Luskin grew vegetables, kept bees, and stuck to well-marked trails through the woods. She knew how to read a text closely, slaughter chickens, and can tomatoes, but she didn’t know how to read the untracked forest that dominates the Green Mountain State. Until she was sixty, she was scared of getting lost in the woods. Then she heard a call from the universe that the deer could teach her how to read the untracked landscape. Reviving Artemis: Becoming a Huntress tells the story of how she learned to navigate through the forest of her fears and find her place in the natural world.
Finding a Place in the Natural World
Reviving Artemis is the unlikely story of a woman raised in mid-twentieth-century suburbia, then lived in New York City as a young adult, and moved to Vermont in 1984. For more than thirty years, she raised domestic livestock, kept bees, and cultivated fruits and vegetables while teaching literature and telling stories. But when she turned sixty, something shifted. Luskin was overtaken by a primal urge to step out of the garden, off the blazed trails, and into untracked forest by learning to hunt deer.
Deeply personal, lyrically told, and funny, Reviving Artemis reveals Luskin’s ambivalence about guns and her fear of entering the forest alone in the dark. She persisted, using her literary acumen to read the forest and, as thoughtfully as she hunts for words, to hunt for deer. With the stories of Artemis, goddess of the hunt, childbirth, and wild nature to inspire her, Luskin became a huntress determined to age fiercely and compelled to tell this story of finding her place in the natural world.
https://www.deborahleeluskin.com/
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EPISODE 620 - Jill MacLean - Canadian Author of a Poetry Collection, Non-fiction Historical biography, Young Reader and Young Adult Novels
Jill MacLean is the Canadian author of a poetry collection, a non-fiction historical biography, three novels for young readers, two young adult novels, and The Arrows of Mercy, historical fiction for adults set in medieval England, released in 2023. The Arrows of Fealty, a stand alone sequel to The Arrows of Mercy, will release in September 2024.
Jill MacLean’s somewhat truncated biography:
Although I was born in England in Berkshire (the county where my medieval novel, The Arrows of Mercy, is set), I left there many years ago, and happily took out Canadian citizenship in 1970.
I began writing poetry in the nineties, along with completing a Masters degree in theology, and my poetry collection was published in Manitoba in 2003. My young grandson then asked me to write him a book – and changed the direction of my life. Three middle-grade novels and two Young Adult novels followed in fairly quick succession (you can check them out under Publications).
All five novels were contemporary, four were set in Newfoundland (where my family lived for seventeen years), and four overtly dealt with bullying.
Was I in danger of falling into a literary rut?
If so, what to write next?
The hiatus was frightening; but gradually there surfaced my abiding fascination with the medieval period, and even more gradually characters began to emerge, chief among them Edmund – I know from the beginning he would be an archer. I also knew I wanted to write about war and its aftereffects, as well as plague (this was well before Covid) – and that I did not want to write about aristocrats. Edmund and his cohorts are peasants, serfs, villeins, the lowest of the low.
I read widely about rural life in mid-14th century England, my son drove me around the back lanes of Berkshire in search of the exact setting, and I started to write in 2015. The novel was initially intended for a young adult audience, but morphed into fiction for adults – I wanted no constrictions.
Because I was in love with the research, and assumed you would be too, I wrote a sprawling, unmanageable mess of a novel, and then spent years (literally) cutting it back until it was the length it needed to be.
The Arrows of Mercy was launched.
Although set in 1348, the novel’s themes of plague, PTSD and scorched-earth warfare (think Syria and Ukraine) are all-too relevant to today’s world.
https://jillmaclean.mywriting.network/about-me/
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Episode 610 - Marianne Leone - Actor in The Sopranos, Three Stooges, Author of Five Dog Epiphany, Ma Speaks Up And a First-Generation Daughter Talks Back and Jesse A Mother’s Story
Marianne Leone grew up seven miles outside of Boston, in the village of Nonantum that everybody called “the Lake,” a small blue-collar enclave of a larger city, Newton. Lake dwellers were pretty evenly divided between Italian and Irish-Americans, with a soupcon of French-Canadians. There was no actual Lake in the Lake. The original had dried up and all that remained during my childhood was a green-slicked puddle on the site of a factory my mother and aunt worked in during World War II.
All the Italians in the Lake had migrated from the same southern mountain village, San Donato Val di Comino. My mother and father were both Italian immigrants, but my mom was an outsider, from Sulmona, Abruzzo. My dad owned a small workingman’s bar, Leone’s Café. I went to Catholic school for twelve years.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be a saint, a reporter and a cowboy. I didn’t become a saint, but I married a cowboy and sometimes I write for the Boston Globe. I’ve written a bunch of screenplays, and sold some of them, but I’m unproduced, except for a scene in With/In, a compilation film about the covid lockdown I shot with my husband and write about in FIVE DOG EPIPHANY.
I was also lucky enough to play Joanne Moltisanti, Christopher’s mother, on HBO’s The Sopranos for four seasons. I live in a small town on the south shore of Massachusetts with my husband, Chris Cooper, and two rescue dogs, Titi and Sugar. KNOWING JESSE is about my son, whose luminous presence expanded and transformed everything else in my universe. I wrote the book to celebrate his life, to deal with his death, and to share him with others. MA SPEAKS UP is about my mother, who came to America to escape fascism and an arranged marriage to an old man. FIVE DOG EPIPHANY is about grief/mutual healing/rescue dogs.
https://marianneleonecooper.com/
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Episode 609 - Kristin Aurelia - SHE Wise Publications, illuminate, guide, and empower souls on their journey
Meet Kristin AureliaKristin Aurelia grew up in a small town in New England and currently resides in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. She is a Soul-Led Author, Podcaster, Public Speaker, Coach and Teacher. Additionally, she is a Certified Health Coach (CHC), NASM Certified Nutrition Coach (CNC), Certified Wellness Coach (CWC), Certified Biofield Tuner and Reiki Master. Kristin obtained her MBA, M.A. in Human Resources Management and Instructional Design and B.A. in Psychology from Marymount University in Arlington, VA. She has spent much of her life studying and observing human behavior. She has made it her life’s mission to share experiences and bring wisdom and knowledge to the forefront of her works with the desire to help others along their journey.
Kristin is a messenger sent to spread light and love while creating unity. As she puts it, "We are ALL CHILDREN OF GOD…one collective consciousness…Surviving the Human Experience!"
https://www.shewisepublications.com/
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EPISODE 608 - Paul J.C. Edge - Mercurial Novels to Unleash Your Imagination, and a Local Bakeshop
Paul J.C. Edge is a leading independent author , his works include the gritty Summer Haven and Book of Xaal Sci-Fi horror trilogies, fusing his love of space sagas, fantasy and Lovecraftian gothic horror stories.
Paul studied IT at university, which included modules in Astro Physics, which built real knowledge around his love of tales of space travel and alien contact. Finally forsaking a successful career in pharmaceutical IT system design and scientific informatics, he became a full time author in 2020.
Paul lives in Cheshire and loves spending time walking in nature, whilst dreaming up new ideas and stories. He also has a passion for rock and jazz, cooking and reading (ranging from sci-fi and thrillers to Dostoyevsky). His offbeat sense of humour will often solicit a groan from his wife and full time editor, Elaine.
"A novel begins with the seed of an idea. However, by putting myself in the role of the protagonist I follow a trail led by the decisions made. The story writes itself to some extent.
As an indie author, I do not have access to expensive resources, the marketing and graphics are brought to life by myself. I collage ideas from real world photographs from numerous sources, bringing together an image to meet the needs of the novel in question".
Paul JC Edge
https://www.pauljcedge.co.uk/
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EPISODE 603 - Shannon Russell - Second Act Success - Leave unfulfilling careers to build joyful, purpose-driven businesses
I spent over 16 years as a Television Producer overseeing multi-million dollar productions in New York City and Los Angeles working for companies like MTV, E! Entertainment, Yahoo!, Pop Sugar, A&E, TLC, etc.
My second act began once I leapt into entrepreneurship and opened a franchise business serving families in my community, so I could be more present mom for my two kids. My business quickly grew to be amongst the Top 5 in the organization, and I successfully sold this business in 2024.
While running my first business, I started Second Act Success® Coaching so I could help support women as they start a second act in life by changing careers to start a business.
My focus as a business coach for women is to help others produce their best life, while finding the flexibility, freedom, and fulfillment they deserve.
Now, I share my experience, as a television executive turned business owner with my clients, as we work towards their business goals.
Book: Start Your Second Act - How to Change Careers, Launch a Business, & Create Your Best Life
The ultimate guide to pivot with purpose, reinvent your career, and produce your best life. The career that once inspired you no longer fits your life, and a nagging voice inside tells you there’s something more. When your mind, heart, and dreams no longer align with your current path, it’s time to start your second act.
Shannon Russell, a former TV producer turned entrepreneur and business coach, understands the fears and challenges of disrupting your carefully planned career and taking the leap into something more. Drawing on her personal experiences and the success stories of other women, she shares her proven three-step Second Act Strategy (reflect, research, realize) to guide you from where you are now to where you want to be.
https://secondactsuccess.co/
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EPISODE 602 - Leslie A Rasmussen - TV Writer for Gerald McRaney, Alf, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey to Author of Books on Family
Leslie A. Rasmussen was born and raised in Los Angeles and graduated from UCLA. She went on to write television comedies for Gerald McRaney, Burt Reynolds, Roseanne Barr, Norm McDonald, Drew Carey, The Wild Thornberrys, and Sweet Valley High.
After leaving the business to raise her boys, Leslie obtained a master's degree in nutrition and ran her own business for ten years. Leslie has been published in the Huffington Post over twenty times and speaks on panels discussing female empowerment. She’s a member of the Writers Guild of America, Women in Film, and the UCLA Alumni Association.
After Happily Ever After is Leslie’s debut novel and has won over fifteen awards, and her second novel, The Stories We Cannot Tell, has won eleven awards, and she’s been interviewed about it on NPR and XM radio. Leslie’s newest novel, When People Leave, came out in 2025.
When Leslie isn’t writing, she loves reading, exercising, and spending time with friends. Leslie lives in Southern California with her husband and two sons.
What I Write:
I have found that most women go through a multitude of similar issues in life. As a mom of two and having been married many years, I have seen this first hand. From the time we are in our thirties, we have experienced both joy and sadness. Whether that’s through finding the right partner, having our heart broken, suffering infertility, or losing a loved one. As we go through life, families go through many changes.
Children leave the nest, our parents age, our friendships change, and some marriages end. I write women’s commercial fiction where I delve into the human experience and situations that are relatable to most of us. I want my readers to see themselves or their family or friends in my characters and to realize no matter what they are going through, they aren’t alone. As my background is writing television sitcoms, I also try to find humor in the tough stuff, in fact, those moments are my favorite to write.
https://www.lesliearasmussen.com/
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EPISODE 601 - Cal Logan - ShadowBane - One womb, one soul, two fates. One will rise. One will fall
A full-time personal trainer and competitive powerlifter, Cal started writing seriously in 2017, drawing inspiration from history, his time spent practicing mixed martial arts, and of course, books. Cal lives in Chicago with his wife, Taylor, and his dachshund, Rizzo.
At the end of the day, I’ll be happy if ShadowBane earns me some loyal fans. As a debut author, I can’t ask for more than that. In a way, ShadowBane is a promise to readers—here’s what you can expect from my books, and if you like what you see, stick around. I’m just getting started, and there’ll be plenty more to come.
Book: ShadowBane
Description
One womb, one soul, two fates. One will rise. One will fall.
Shura and Jin are the last of a divine bloodline, operating at the bloodiest fringes of society where they wield might and magic against the demons they are sworn to destroy. For Shura, it's the only way to restore honor to her lineage and claim her rightful place in the world. For Jin, it's a matter of begrudging duty-and escaping the influence of the three kings vying for control of the continent.
In their pursuit of the sadistic cult behind the demons' resurgence, the twins find themselves hunted by an ancient demon harboring a blood vendetta, and are forced to set aside past grudges and seek the kings' alliance. When Shura discovers a chilling prophecy, she fears that even her newfound allies may not be enough to stem the rising tide of shadow.
Even the palest chance of victory will come at a brutal price. But the prophecy never foretold whose fate would settle the debt: Shura's or her brother's.
https://callogan.com/
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Episode 600 - Dominick Domasky - Celebrating 600 Episodes, Tap Into Your Creativity, Go Beyond Learning, Embrace Starting
Episode 600 brings the return of Dom Domasky - every one hundred episodes of Living The Next Chapter, Dom returns to celebrate a podcast idea that he gave me 600 episodes ago
Dom shares publishing inside information and how we as creatives need to engage in action over information collecting!
Check out Dom and his services here!!
https://www.motivationchamps.com/
Books Mentioned:
Lean Learning - How to Achieve More by Learning Lesshttps://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lean-Learning/Pat-Flynn/9781668027646
https://patflynn.com/
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RICK RUBIN - THE CREATIVE ACT: A WAY OF BEINGRick Rubin is a nine-time GRAMMY-winning producer, named one of the 100 most influential people in the world by Time and the most successful producer in any genre by Rolling Stone. He has collaborated with artists from Tom Petty to Adele, Johnny Cash to the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Beastie Boys to Slayer, Kanye West to the Strokes, and System of a Down to Jay-Z.
https://sites.prh.com/thecreativeact
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Book: GOOD TO GREAT
This book addresses a single question: can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? Based on a five-year research project comparing companies that made the leap to those that did not, Good to Great shows that greatness is not primarily a function of circumstance but largely a matter of conscious choice, and discipline. This book discusses concepts like Level 5 Leadership; First Who, Then What (first get the right people on the bus, then figure out where to drive it); the Hedgehog Concept, and the Flywheel.
https://www.jimcollins.com/
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EPISODE 489 - Author Darlene Campos Shares the Amazing Story of Holocaust Survivor Pete Philipps
Hello! Hola! I'm Darlene P. Campos, an Ecuadorian-American author who is also a proud Houstonian.
I earned my BA in English-Creative Writing with a Medicine and Society Studies minor from the University of Houston (Go Coogs!) and my MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Texas at El Paso (Go Miners!).
I am the author of the young adult novels Behind Mount Rushmore, Summer Camp is Cancelled, and Heaven Isn't Me, traditionally published by Vital Narrative Press.
Pete Philipps' Interview
Pete grew up in Essen, a major industrial city on Germany’s Ruhr River. His father worked as a cattle hide dealer for an international trading company in nearby Mühlheim. His mother was a designer for a fashionable women’s dress shop. Pete, his younger twin brothers, and parents lived together in an apartment.
1933–39: Pete had barely passed his first birthday when the Nazis came to power. His father realized the danger that now faced Jews in Germany, and the family left for Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1936. Pete attended Jewish school there, but the times were unsettling. In fall 1938, the Sudetenland, a region of Czechoslovakia, was incorporated into the Nazi Reich, and the following March, German troops marched into Prague. Shortly thereafter, Pete’s family left for Italy, where they settled in the Genoa suburbs. There, they were attacked by local antisemitic fascists. Soon after Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, the Philippses immigrated to Ecuador.
1940–45: In Quito, the Philippses joined the growing colony of refugees from Germany. Pete attended a private boys’ school. His father set up business making margarine, while his mother did clothing alterations and knitting. In May 1941, just six months before the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Philippses arrived in the United States. Pete’s father returned to his former company.
After the war, Pete learned that his paternal grandmother, who had fled earlier to the Netherlands, had been deported to Auschwitz, where she perished. He completed his education and, after a tour of military duty in Germany, became a journalist for the New York Times.
https://www.ushmm.org/remember/holocaust-survivors/volunteers/pete-philipps
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Published: Jan. 20, 2025
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Episode 554 - Sarah M. Eden - Crafting deep characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops
Sarah M. Eden is a USA Today best-selling author of more than seventy witty and charming historical novels, which have sold over one million copies worldwide. Her works include 2020’s Foreword Reviews INDIE Awards Gold Winner for Romance, Forget Me Not, and 2020 Holt Medallion finalist, Healing Hearts. She is a three-time “Best of State” Gold Medal winner for fiction and a three-time Whitney Award winner. Combining her obsession with history and her affinity for tender love stories, Sarah loves crafting deep characters and heartfelt romances set against rich historical backdrops. She holds a bachelor’s degree in research and happily spends hours perusing the reference shelves of her local library.
https://www.sarahmeden.com/
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Episode 553 - Jim Carlough - The Six Pillars of Effective Leadership - A Roadmap To Success
Jim Carlough Launches Leadership Book for Modern Professionals
Jim Carlough, an experienced leader and first-time author, has officially released his debut book, designed to revolutionize how individuals approach leadership. This new publication provides a fresh perspective on leading teams and driving professional success through actionable strategies and clear guidance.
In an era of constant workplace evolution, effective leadership has never been more crucial. Carlough’s book addresses these demands head-on by offering solutions tailored to the challenges of today’s complex professional environment. It serves as a blueprint for leaders to build trust, foster collaboration, and achieve outstanding results.
Transforming Leadership with Actionable Insights
Unlike many books on leadership, Carlough’s debut work emphasizes practicality over theory. Each chapter presents readers with clear strategies that can be applied immediately to improve team dynamics and overall performance.
The book focuses on the following key areas:
- Building a Culture of Trust and Accountability: Carlough stresses the importance of creating environments where team members feel valued and empowered to contribute their best.
- Effective Goal Setting and Motivation: Learn how to align team objectives with organizational goals and inspire individuals to surpass expectations.
- Adapting Leadership Styles: The book teaches leaders to customize their approaches to suit the needs of diverse teams and situations.
Why This Book Is Essential Now
The workplace has undergone a significant transformation in recent years, driven by remote work, technological advancements, and shifting employee expectations. Leadership is now about more than achieving short-term goals—it requires creating sustainable success while navigating unprecedented challenges.
Jim Carlough’s book addresses these realities, equipping leaders with tools to adapt and thrive. By focusing on actionable insights, the book helps readers overcome common leadership pitfalls and deliver lasting results.
Empowering Leaders to Drive Results
One of the standout features of Carlough’s book is its emphasis on measurable impact. By blending proven techniques with adaptable strategies, the author ensures that leaders can translate knowledge into real-world results.
The book is designed for a wide audience, including:
- Aspiring leaders looking to build their skills.
- Established professionals seeking to refine their leadership style.
- Organizations aiming to develop stronger teams and more cohesive cultures.
About Jim Carlough
Jim Carlough is a seasoned professional with years of experience in leadership and team development. His career is marked by a commitment to helping individuals and organizations achieve their full potential through effective strategies and forward-thinking approaches. Carlough’s insights, drawn from years of hands-on experience, form the backbone of his writing, making his debut book a must-read for professionals across industries.
https://www.jimcarlough.com/
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Episode 425 - Gina DeMillo Wagner - Forces of Nature, A Memoir of Family, Loss and Finding Home
Gina DeMillo Wagner is an award-winning journalist and author. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, Washington Post, Memoir Magazine, Modern Loss, Self, Outside, Writer’s Digest, and other publications.
She is a Yaddo Fellow, a winner of the CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award, and her memoir was longlisted for the 2022 SFWP Literary prize. Gina has a master’s degree in journalism and is an instructor at Lighthouse Writers Workshop. She lives and works near Boulder, Colorado.
Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss and Finding Home
Gina DeMillo Wagner’s brother Alan had a rare genetic disorder that caused him to veer from loving to violent. When Alan died suddenly, Gina was pulled away from the safety of her adult life and thrust back into a family she has been estranged from for nearly ten years.
FORCES OF NATURE follows this rewinding of the past, Gina’s caregiving journey and reckoning with complicated grief, plus Alan’s Christmas-themed funeral, and an investigation into his cause of death. It’s a personal story that asks universal questions: How much of ourselves should we sacrifice to those we love? And, what forces shape our sense of family and home?
https://ginadwagner.com/
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Episode 424 - Lois J Rodriguez - New Book in the works - Foster Care, Kinship Care and Adoption - Creating A Safe and Loving Home
Let me Introduce Myself
As a foster parent & adoptive mom, I went from newlywed to a family of 6 seemingly overnight. My deep dive experience with at-risk youth and trauma parenting has been a sink or swim adventure! Our boys are now early and middle adolescents and parenting neurodivergent children has sent me on a quest to understand the critical phases of child development and the challenges for at-risk youth.
In this episode we talk about Lois' upcoming book and her family - Foster Care, Kinship Care and Adoption - Creating A Safe and Loving Home
Mentioned in this episode:
https://www.comfortcases.org/ is a way to help children at the time they are pulled from their home and enter foster care. These are backpacks provided for their belongings, instead of using the trash bag, which is common.
https://www.fosterlove.com/is the website for preparing birthday boxes for children in foster care
https://www.loisjrodriguez.com/
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EPISODE 423 - Rachell Freed - He Is Forever With Me - Surviving and Thriving after Sexual Abuse
About Rachell
Rachell is a survivor of physical, mental, and sexual abuse. She was molested from the age of 12 to 18 by her father and, as a result, became pregnant. These events would devastate many in similar circumstances, but not Rachell. All she wanted was to escape the torture and start a new life cemented in faith. Rachell shows how to survive abuse and the emotional effect trauma can have on your life. Take this journey with her. Learn how her experiences will help you to also survive, cope and deal with abuse.
https://heisforeverwithme.com/
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Episode 422 - Christine Samuel - Author of The Heart Space - Living With Grace and Eas in an Era of Uncertainty
About the author
Christine Samuel, a coach, facilitator, author, and speaker, is renowned for her deep exploration into transformative human experiences. With over two decades of expertise in the User Experience field, bridging the interaction between humans and technology, she now dedicates her work to answering vital questions: What creates transformative human experiences? How can we infuse Relational Intelligence into our collaborations?
Christine guides individuals and organizations through transitions, fostering a new paradigm of heart-centered connection and growth in our rapidly changing world. Through coaching, facilitation, and speaking engagements, she empowers them to cultivate deep listening skills, self-awareness, and inner wisdom.
As the founder of Inner Work Matters, Christine pioneers Relational Intelligence in training, coaching, and facilitation, reshaping how we collaborate and lead. She is also a co-founder of Women’s Career Mastery, empowering women to excel as holistic leaders in the modern workplace.
For the past few years, Christine has championed deep listening practice circles, providing invaluable spaces for individuals to learn and experience what it is like to be heard, seen, and acknowledged, and do the same for others.
Christine resides in Toronto with her husband, two children, a cat, and a dog.
The Heart Space: Living with Grace and Ease in an Era of Uncertainty
A timely and relevant read for anyone seeking balance, peace, and clarity in a rapidly changing world.
"The Heart Space" is a life-changing guide to embracing uncertainty, overcoming fears, and thriving in times of change. It shows you a way of being where actions become effortless, thinking hard is unnecessary, and peace of mind comes naturally, even if your path ahead is unclear.
In these tumultuous times, Christine Samuel provides deep insights and practical guidance for those on a journey to awakening when the old ways no longer work and the path forward is uncertain.
Inside "The Heart Space," you'll discover:
- Radical Receptivity: How to embrace the contradictions, discomfort, and possibilities that come with uncertainty.
- Release the grip of fear: Uncover how your mind's analytical nature often feeds fear, and learn to break free from its grip.
- Clarity and effortless action: Shift from constant doing to simply being, and explore the power of being guided by the heart.
- Find Peace in Simplicity: Discover a different kind of knowing and being that allows your mind to let go of its need for control.
- Living from The Heart Space: Learn how to bring your mind to your heart and discover an inner certainty that remains unchanged by circumstances. Unlock the secrets to stop overthinking and cultivate inner peace in your everyday life.
With vibrant illustrations, personal anecdotes, and hands-on practices, Christine Samuel showcases how life can bloom with more joy, fluidity, and freedom from fear when guided by the heart, especially in times of uncertainty ahead.
This book is a must-read for those seeking a transformative journey toward a more fulfilling existence. It invites readers to step away from a fear-driven way of being and embrace a life led by the heart.
Don't let uncertainty hold you back any longer. Embrace the power of your heart and unlock a life of grace and ease.
https://christinesamuel.ca/
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EPISODE 421 - Stephen Murray - Las Vegas Author, fiction, murder mystery, holiday fiction and crime fiction
Stephen Murray is a Las Vegas author. Praised for his unique writing style and powerful character development skills, his books cross multiple genres and appeals to diverse audiences.
Stephen was born in England, a far cry from the Nevada desert he now calls home. At age seven, his family relocated to the southern part of Africa, where he was raised in various countries and attended boarding school. The opportunity to experience other cultures as a child inspired a love of travel in him that eventually led to his love of the written word.
In his late teens, he returned to London and spent seven years absorbing as much art, music, culture, and countryside as he could. While living in England, he also seized the opportunity to explore neighboring countries and cultures throughout Europe. In 1976, a job opportunity brought him across the pond to Los Angeles, California. He happily lived there many years, eventually opening his own business.
In 2003, Stephen once again was drawn to something new. He left L.A. to escape the congested commutes that became part of his daily life and migrated to Las Vegas, Nevada. He quickly fell in love with the city, its caring communities and kind people.
Stephen has visited over 40 countries across 5 continents as an insatiable explorer of the globe. He found he enjoyed the quiet, untouched and less commercialized destinations of the world the most, such as Bhutan, Machu Picchu, Victoria Falls, and the Galapagos Islands. They provided inspiration and insight that remained with him long after the trips ended.In 2007, he started writing down the stories from his travels as a way to keep a record of all the places he’d visited and the people he’d met. He spent two years capturing his experiences on paper. Through this process he discovered a passion for writing.
He has since published several well-regarded books in the genres of mainstream fiction, murder mystery, holiday fiction and crime fiction. His work has earned a variety of awards and accolades by nationally recognized organizations.
In addition to being a published author, a public speaker, and an advocate for a variety of causes, Stephen was a partner in a software development and support company, which he originally founded in California in 1982.
In 2023, Stephen began hosting his own weekly TV series on WWDBTV titled ‘The Gift of Giving.’ He features guests involved in non-profits, foundations, 501c3 organizations and charities in the state of Nevada.
https://authorstephenmurray.com/
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EPISODE 420 - Cress Spicer - CHILDHOOD AUTISM - Insights Into Their Mysterious World
About the author
I am passionate about working with children on the autism spectrum . I love to connect with them on deep meaningful levels both as a student support worker supporting them in the school boards and when I am also teaching Reiki to the students,
My specialty is releasing stress and anxiety in children on the autism spectrum and their parents incorporating mindfulness, deep breathing techniques, reiki and meditation, bodytalk.
I have over 25 years experience working with children on the autism spectrum as a student support worker in various school boards.
I am a certified Reiki Master Teacher practicing for over 25 years, Certified Bodytalk Practioner practicing over 17 years.
Certified ECE Infant and toddler and 3rd level deaf blind intervenor training, certified in Mindup Mindfulness for school boards.
Book: CHILDHOOD AUTISM: Insights Into Their Mysterious World
https://amzn.to/3zGzean
Cress Spicer's book is a practical and user friendly guide, reflecting her many years of working with these very special and unique children. Cress's bond that she has formed and her deepening understanding of children on the autism spectrum and herself is evident in the stories she shares.
Cress incorporates easy to understand tools and techniques that one can use when working with these extraordinary group of humans.
What you learn from the book:
Strategies to help your sensitive child on the autism spectrum deal with over reacting to their environment, using mindfulness and reiki
How an autistic child can learn to self regulate themselves using mindfulness and connect with their emotions
Learn mindfulness , breathing techniques and reiki techniques to release, stress and anxiety
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Episode 419 - Bambi Lynn - THE JOURNEY OF JOSEPHINE THE DOLL THAT MENDED A BROKEN HEART
About the Author
Hi, my name is Bambi, took me thirty-two years to except the name I was given, but now I say my name with pride. I am a mother of six adult children and thirteen and counting grandchildren. Ever since my 7th grade teacher told me I had a gift to write I have never stopped. This is my first published book and many more to come. My passion is people, sitting around a table and listening to their stories and hoping mine gives them a little hope that storms don't last, and we will always get to the other side. I have worked in industries that give me the opportunity to speak to lots of people and hear lots of stories. I hope to change lives one life and door at a time. I believe that purpose is everything. when you find it run with it and make a difference for the kingdom. Let's continue this journey together.
Welcome to OUR website. This is a place where I am able to tell my story and share YOURS. My book is a catalyst for conversation. I have heard from allot of women who read my book that it was as if i was telling their story, which is why i started "healingthroughstories.com" .My book may be about MY life, but this website is about sharing OUR lives. Our Goal is to build a Community that can heal through each others stories, recognize that we are not alone, and have hope that TRIUMPH comes after tragedy!
https://healingthroughstories.com/
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EPISODE 418 - Andrea Heckner - Crime Thriller Books - Secrets in the Heartland Series
I’m Andrea Heckner, and I am an author of Crime Thriller Books. I live in Wisconsin with my husband, David. We have three grown sons and three grandchildren.
Here’s my why for writing: I became an avid reader as a teenager and love to lose myself in a great story, but that is not where my story begins. My story begins with a young girl who struggled to learn to read due to having Dyslexia. Thanks to parents, educators and tutors who were dedicated to helping me to become literate, I was able to not only learn to read and write but to find a true passion in literacy.
After starting as a Special Education Teacher, I realized how little I knew about teaching others to read and went back to school. Becoming a Reading Specialist and Literacy Coach allowed me to be able to help other children to become readers and writers. Participating in the National Writing Project helped me to not only become a stronger teacher of writing but also to develop my voice as a writer.
Thanks for visiting; feel free to get in touch if you have questions about my books, and don’t forget to sign up for my newsletter to be one of the first to get updates.
Secrets in the Heartland Series
This series of Mystery/Thriller fiction books follows Detective Kass Minor and FBI Agent Robert Matthews as they work to solve crimes in and around the Springfield, Missouri, region of the United States.
Book 1-The Farm
Have you ever wondered how an ordinary person could know and interact with a serial killer and not know it until it was too late? The Farm, book one in The Murder in the Heartland series, centers on the disappearance of Kelsey Learner, a seemingly ordinary midwestern single mom.
Parallel to the investigation into Kelsey’s disappearance, a pair of serial killers are murdering in the area for what they perceive to be a higher good. Police have yet to connect their victims and, in some cases, even know they are missing. Is Kelsey their latest victim, or is it a coincidence that a serial killer couple is on the loose and Kelsey has vanished?
Book 2- Dismantling the Farm
FBI Agent Robert Matthews came from a long line of civil servants, but it was his grandfather’s love of a 1930s movie about the FBI that had made being an agent Robert’s dream. He had visions of car chases, gun fights, and media releases that featured his name. Instead, he got assigned to the Springfield, Missouri field office, where he spent his days doing paperwork, going out on investigative interviews, testifying in court, or practicing firearms use and defensive tactics. When he is assigned to look into the disappearance of a young man as a favor to a friend of the Assistant Director of the FBI, no one could have predicted how big the case would be.
Book 3-Remembering the Farm
The third book in the Secrets in the Heartland series brings the reader back to answer some of their lingering questions. When two boys go missing in Springfield, Detective Kass Minor must move fast to try to bring them home safely. Working with a new partner who is no Mitch Leet, she has no idea what this investigation will reveal.
Is Kelsey Learner still alive, or did she perish at the hands of the serial killers? Will learning the truth help Claire to move forward in her life?
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Episode 417 - Whitney Riley - You Need You, The Catepillar Was Always the Butterfly, Make Everything Easier
As a transformational mentor, Whitney helps you achieve big results.
This work is a little like coaching, a little like spiritual healing, and a little like therapeutic counseling. As a mentor, the focus is on finding each person's unique path to emotional and mental freedom increasing self-confidence while building a connection with the authentic self. And it's fun.
Whitney has 25 years experience positively transforming power struggles, weight issues, oppressive grief, autoimmune disorders, bad habits, anxiety, and financial ceilings.
She has condensed her learning into powerful, proven sessions that transform the most difficult situations, so that people can let go and start living a better life.
Whitney is a mom, wife, author, speaker, certified EFT practitioner, and founder of Specific Meditation Technique. She is proud to have been blessed by the Dalai Lama and to have been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize by a former client.
Book: Make Everything Easier: Get What You Want By Healing Hidden Resistance - Tired of working so hard at your life to just feel meh, it’s ok?
Do you look good and appear to have it all together, but feel exhausted, unsatisfied, and can’t find relief from the demands of people around you?
Embark on a transformative journey to self-discovery and empowerment. In Make Everything Easier you’ll learn a groundbreaking method that guides you through identifying and resolving hidden conflicts causing stress, anger, anxiety, and a host of other negative emotions. Break free from heavy thoughts, feelings, and behaviors making it easier to achieve your deepest goals.
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Episode 416 - Peach Grayson - Let’s Talk Menopause – You’re Not Crazy - Searching for the right words
About the author
Meet Peach Grayson, a seasoned writer and dedicated healthcare researcher with over 30 years of experience. Known for her witty and informative series of books titled Let's Talk Menopause, Peach has managed to strike the perfect balance between humor and education.
When she's not immersed in words and data, Peach can be found exploring the great outdoors, indulging in her love for hiking and nature. A proud mother of twin girls and a happy dog mom to Sadie, she cherishes her family time as much as her professional pursuits.
With an impressive career marked by insightful writing and valuable research contributions, Peach Grayson is a captivating storyteller who brings humor and expertise to the world of healthcare and beyond.
Book: Let’s Talk Menopause – You’re Not Crazy!: A Girl’s Witty Guide to Understanding Hot Flashes, Night Sweats, Chin Hairs, Rage, and Sleeplessness from Peri-Menopause ... (Let's Talk Menopause Book 1)
In "Let's Talk Menopause – You're Not Crazy!", Maggio takes you on a hilarious and relatable journey through the ups and downs of menopause. With her signature British humor, Maggio shares her personal experiences and wisdom, offering an honest look at this transformative time in a woman's life.
Through journal entries and reflections, Maggio invites you into her world as she navigates the challenges of hot flashes, mood swings, and more. You'll laugh and nod in recognition as she recounts her menopausal misadventures.
But this book is more than just a comedic memoir. It's a practical guide and a source of comfort for women facing menopause. Maggio breaks down the scientific aspects of each stage, explaining the hormonal changes and their effects on the body and mind in a way that is both informative and accessible. She also offers valuable tips on managing symptoms, prioritizing self-care, and maintaining a positive outlook.
So, grab a glass of wine, put your feet up, and get ready to laugh, learn, and celebrate the menopausal experience like never before. Whether you're in perimenopause, menopause, or postmenopause, this book is a must-read. You'll gain a newfound appreciation for the strength and resilience of the female body and a deep sense of camaraderie with the millions of women who have gone through this journey before you. Get ready to embrace your inner menopausal maven and take on the world, one hot flash at a time!
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EPISODE 415 - Lynne Shaner - Journey to Everland Bay, Black Rose Writing, and Apple Trees
About Lynne
Lynne Shaner has been captivated by fantasy, myth, and fairy tales since childhood, when her mother first read Charlotte’s Web and The Wind in the Willows to her. She lives in Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin, close enough to Lake Michigan to walk to the shoreline every day.
Shelves overflowing with books line her home, and there is always a knitting project on her needles. Lynne lives with her husband, and Merlin, her small, adorable pup. When not writing, she can be found reading and knitting in her garden, where she grows herbs, flowers and story ideas. Her work has appeared in various literary magazines. She holds a master’s degree in creative writing/fiction from Johns Hopkins. This is her debut novel.
Journey to Everland Bay
Jemma Avalon, an unconventional mage-in-training, longs to return to Everland Bay, her ancestral homeland, and find a way to join the renowned magical research institute there, like the women in her family before her.
Daughter of a gentle part elf-fae mother and a father with fiery dragon blood, an unusual combination even in the magical world, ten years after her mother’s sudden death, she is working at a major museum in DC, where magic is all but outlawed. Her father wants her to assimilate and live without magic, but Jemma is determined to fully embrace her heritage.
When an ordinary day at the museum takes an extraordinary turn, Jemma is rocketed to an Everland Bay Institute under violent siege, where dark-arts mages threaten everything important to her. Once there, she joins forces with her companions and works feverishly to save Everland Bay from crumbling under enemy attack. In so doing, she finds a path to her own strength and mastery, and her heart’s true home.
A Heroine’s Journey for our times.
“A beautifully engaging fantasy teeming with dragons, fae, magic and the importance of family and friendship. A joy to read from beginning to end. I found myself rooting for our main heroine, Jemma, as she grew into a wonderful and powerful young woman. I am already looking forward to the next work in this thrilling series!” – Julie Boglisch, author of The Elifer Chronicles, The Requiem of Stones series and her standalone, Ghost of a Memory.
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EPISODE 414 - Jack Ori - Fiction With A Purpose - transgender author who writes LGBTQ+ mysteries starring trauma survivors
I’ve been writing stories ever since my grandmother gifted me a typewriter when I was six. My first story was a two-page Nancy Drew fanfiction—to my young mind, it made sense for her to find the bad guy hiding under the bed!
As a kid, I loved mysteries. My favorite series was The Three Investigators, which is sadly out of print today. I was especially fascinated by all the secret codes the protagonists used and how Jupiter Jones (what a name!) would use his acting skills to pretend he was stupid when he needed to get information. And of course, there would always be a scene near the end where the bad guys kidnapped one or more of the boys to try to keep their secrets hidden.
Although I read and write stories for teens and adults now, I still love a good kidnapping scene. I also love writing powerful villains who will do anything to keep their secrets hidden, falsely accused people (sometimes framed by their enemies!) who must race against time to clear their names before they end up in jail, and underdog heroes who are determined to find and expose horrifying truths despite the potential consequences.
Many of my darkest stories come from my devastating personal experiences with trauma, drug addiction and abuse. I had a fairly normal childhood. But when I grew up I lived and loved a drug addict and was lucky to escape with my life. He was not—he died of an overdose two days after I moved across the country. It was another five years before I learned I was both autistic and transgender, which shattered my worldview in some ways even though it made everything that came before make sense.
I had many careers while I was trying to figure it all out, most recently as a licensed master social worker. I’ve worked with traumatized people, drug or alcohol addicts, and people impacted by the criminal justice system.
One summer I worked at an alternative court system in New York City. It opened my eyes to the ways racism and homo/transphobia, trauma, and drug use often intersect to create a “justice” system that is stacked against certain groups of people.
For all these reasons, I write mystery/thrillers that not only keep people guessing but also inspire and empower trauma survivors. All of my characters have experienced traumatic violence but don’t let that stop them from fighting for justice.
I love it when readers tell me that my books helped them heal. I also tell the stories I do to advocate for real-world change to the criminal justice system.
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Episode 413 - Tanya Brockett - Co-Author of Basic Financial Literacy, What You Didn't Learn in School
Book: Basic Financial Literacy: What You Didn't Learn in School - Ever wish someone had taught you more about finance and wealth management so you didn’t feel short-changed in conversations about money?
Dive into practical wealth management with Basic Financial Literacy: What You Didn't Learn in School. This short read demystifies financial literacy, making budgeting and money management accessible to all.
Inside, you'll discover:
- Why & How to Prepare Your Financial Mindset
- How to Set SMART Financial Goals
- Effective Budgeting Strategies
- The Power of Regular Saving
- Fundamental Investing Principles
- Debt Management Techniques
- How to Build and ProtectPersonal & Business Credit
- Benefits of Lifelong Learning in Finance
- How to Build a Solid Retirement Plan
- Strategic Tax Planning Tips
- The Importance of Insurance in Wealth Protection
- And More…
Through each chapter’s relatable examples, you'll see how people apply these principles in their lives, transforming their relationship with money. Perfect for beginners (teens and adults), this book is a must-have for anyone seeking to understand their finances and build lasting wealth. Basic Financial Literacy equips you with the strategies needed to take control of your financial future.
Discover how to build wealth, secure financial freedom, and achieve prosperity with this empowering roadmap to financial success. It even comes with suggestions for further reading so you can continue your financial empowerment journey. Don't miss the opportunity to unlock your financial potential and pave the way for a prosperous tomorrow.
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**Episode 412 - Cathy Gagliardi - Encouraged by Author Robert Munsch, Cathy wrote Bellyflies, a book that takes you from pain to purpose
Book:** BELLYFLIES - The first of the Yumyum books, by author Cathy Gagliardi of Twinkling Lynx is BellyFlies and achieved #1 Top Hot New Release on Amazon on the same day it was released and quickly became an International Best Selling book. This is a much-beloved book by many children and their parents. It helps children express those feelings and emotions that they find hard to express in words. A must-have book if the child(ren) in your life are feeling anxious, sad, worried, or simply curious about how to safely and openly express their feelings more easily.
Bellyflies, was born out of tragedy, yet from that book has emerged so many amazing stories from parents who have shared that their children are learning new ways to cope with those moments of anxiety, fear, and uncertainty. Children are saying, "Mommy, I have Bellyflies!" It has even been shared that this book has been used by a Therapist helping children walk through the separation of parents who are away from home for long periods due to work or duty.
The author, Cathy believes that it is her life's work to write stories for children that help them step through the tough times in life and do so with skills that help them cope a little easier.
About the author
Cathy Gagliardi of Twinkling Lynx is passionate about writing stories for children.
She also loves reading those stories to children as she visits schools, hospitals, and organizations around the world. Her books are helping children to express more easily times when they feel anxious, nervous, scared, or sad.
Cathy is so happy when a child receives her books from their parent, grandparent, or someone special in their lives and is excited to hear how they have helped and enjoyed them.
Cathy's mission is to be able to do her part in helping the world by having her books in the hands and homes of children and schools around the world. She feels that if children learn tools to help them through uncomfortable feelings then as they grow, these techniques will naturally be called upon.
Cathy invites you to join her by supporting her Go Fund Me Initiative at twinklinglynx.com#GoFundMe and support children around the world in receiving Cathy's books.
Connect with Cathy and Twinkling Lynx:
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EPISODE 411 - Lorraine Norwood - My Characters Speak To Me - Letting The Story Lead
Hi there! Thanks for stopping by. I'm glad you're here. I'm glad you take an interest in writers and writing. And I'm glad you love books.
I'm a native of Western North Carolina, home to the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill with a degree in English with honors in creative writing and then pursued a career as a professional journalist for over 20 years, working in print and television journalism.
My lifelong interest in archaeology and all things medieval led me to a mid-life career change. I earned a second degree in anthropology at Western Carolina University followed by a Master’s Degree in Medieval Archaeology from the University of York in the UK. I was 50 years old when I graduated. I know! I know! It sounds crazy, but it was one of those things I just had to do. I try to go back to the UK to participate in excavations as often as I can. I love to stay in York, my favorite city, and volunteer with the York Archaeological Trust. You can find them here. Two of my favorite places to stay in York are the Adams House and the Bar Convent.
My novels are set in 14th century England, France, and Germany. It's fascinating, it's hard, and it's fun.
I love getting stuck down rabbit holes finding facts that will add to my story and authenticate my characters and location.
When I'm writing, I'm usually accompanied by my yellow Lab Sally. Sally is like a toddler – she follows me wherever I go. Most of the time she's looking for a handout.
I'm happiest when I'm writing and the magic moment occurs – the words sing and the hairs go up on the back of my neck. It's been a long road, but I'm pleased that at long last after two marriages, two children, nineteen jobs, three college degrees, and twenty-seven moves (one of which was abroad), I have a room of my own in which to write. Virginia Woolf would be proud.
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Episode 410 - Gary Randolph - Amusing Books and Lively Storytelling Programs From Indiana to Ireland to Outer Space
Located in Anderson, Indiana, Gary Randolph is an author and storyteller. His books spin tales (generally with a heaping spoonful of humor) of murder mysteries and wacky aliens in outer space. As a storyteller he performs around central Indiana to both adults and children. He weaves together a mix of stories, songs, poems, and jokes that can transport audiences into another time and place. He specializes in stories of Ireland and Scotland, but is equally comfortable talking and singing about growing up in Indiana, pirates, history and more.
Gary Blaine Randolph is an award-winning writer and storyteller. Over his career he has been a software company owner, a college professor, and a web developer. And always he has been writing and telling stories.
His storytelling weaves together a mix of stories, songs, poems, and jokes for audiences of any age. He specializes in stories of Ireland and Scotland, of pirates and princesses, of growing up in down home Indiana.
He has presented programs to adults and children, Irish festivals, luncheon groups, churches, fairs, senior groups, office parties, and schools.
Gary's books include Stories From Celtic Lands, the whimsical Galactic Detective Agency series, and more.
He and his wife live in Indiana, where, in addition to writing, he cycles, plays guitar, drinks coffee, and hangs out with his grandkids.
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Episode 409 - Christine Blosdale - Use Your Podcast To Write Your Next Book, Podcastonomics, and Following Your Passions
About the author
Christine Blosdale is a three time #1 Amazon Bestselling Author, a Social Media Coach and Podcast Expert. She’s also an award-winning radio personality and producer with over two decades of experience in both broadcasting and podcasting. She has been a featured contributor to America Online, The Microsoft Network, Woman’s Day Magazine, Ticker News, Pacifica Radio and Take 5 Magazine.
Christine's #1 Amazon bestselling books include;
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Podcast Pro: A Step-by-Step Guide on How to Get Booked on Podcasts
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Podcastonomics: Unlocking The Secrets of Profitable Podcasting For Beginners
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Your Amazing Itty Bitty Podcast Book
Podcastonomics is a #1 Amazon Bestseller! Hey there, aspiring podcaster. Are you ready to rock the mic and dive into the exciting world of podcasts? Let International Bestselling Author and Podcast Coach Christine Blosdale be your guide with her latest book, "Podcastonomics: Unlocking The Secrets of Profitable Podcasting For Beginners."
In an audio landscape featuring over 3.5 million podcasts, Christine spills the beans on how to turn your podcasting passion into profits and success - and with millions of listeners on the hunt for fresh content, your voice could be the next one they hear!
"Podcastonomics" is your backstage pass, showing you how to craft engaging stories that'll hook listeners from all corners of the world. Christine Blosdale has been in the audio game for over two decades, and today she's sharing her insider tips to help you create a genuine connection that'll keep your audience coming back for more.
So whether you're a passionate vegan, a single mom budget ninja, or a champion for social justice, your story matters and there's an audience out there waiting for you. Ready to take your voice to the podcasting stage? Let "Podcastonomics" lead the way to podcasting success, one episode at a time. Get ready to slide on those headphones and rock that microphone, you soon-to-be podcast legend, you!
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EPISODE 408 - Danielle Ice - The Tides of the Universe Lightning Trilogy - A thrilling space adventure trilogy
Danielle was bitten by the writing bug when she was in elementary school and she can’t seem to get rid of it! She’s been the author of six short stories including A Dance of Dichotomies, Alyssum’s Wish, and The Trickster’s Trials. She started publishing full-length novels in 2022.
Whenever she isn’t writing, she’s either taking obscenely long walks, watching Disney movies, playing video games, reading, or drinking hot chocolate (sometimes many of those things at once). While she doesn’t write as her full-time job, she likes to put the people and places that live in her head on paper, and she hopes on the off chance that other people like her stories as much as she does.
She cares for writing as much as she does her fantastic family and her cat, Dave. She currently resides in Indiana with her husband and the aforementioned cat. See how adorable he is to the right.
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EPISODE 407 - Kathryn Betts Adams - The Pianist's Only Daughter - A Memoir
About the author
Kathryn Betts Adams, MSW, PhD grew up in St. Paul. Minnesota and now lives in West Hartford, Connecticut. After a decade of clinical social work practice in mental health, nursing home, and substance abuse settings, she served on the faculty of Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, where she taught social work practice with adults and older adults and received tenure in 2011. She has published over 40 research papers about family caregiving, geriatric depression, loneliness, and other aging-related topics. In recent years, she has written popular essays about aging and caregiving and her recent memoir about caring for her parents. Kathryn and her husband have two grown children, one grandson, and two cats.
Book: The Pianist’s Only Daughter: A Memoiris a frank, humorous, and poignant exploration of aging in an aging expert's own family. Kathryn Betts Adams was the only daughter of colorful and talented parents: her mother, an English scholar and poet, and her father, a concert pianist and music professor. Their dramatic emotional lives, marital instability, and eventual break-up provided the backdrop for her 1960s and ‘70s youth.
Nearly thirty years after they were divorced, her newly single father and her never-remarried mother, by then diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, have reconciled and decided to live together again. As her mother’s condition deteriorates, Kathryn has to step in to help manage her care. Despite her expertise as a gerontological social worker, she finds that old family dynamics and disappointing limitations to available services for older adults make every care decision a difficult one. In the face of sometimes overwhelming responsibility, Kathryn marshals available resources to help her parents maintain their quality of life and unique humanity despite the relentless effects of time and chronic illness.
Grounded in insights about health and mental health, The Pianist’s Only Daughter touches on universal themes of aging, parent-child relationships, artistic expression, love, and loss through the intimate story of one family.
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A Winner of the 2024 PenCraft Seasonal Book Award Spring Competition in the non-fiction, memoir genre.
"It’s both a beautiful narrative history of your/our parents’ era and creative life, as well as the bittersweet, difficult decline of our loved ones and the challenges of caregiving all at once. Brava!" ~Ginger McKnight-Chavers, Author of In the Heart of Texas: A Novel
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Episode 406 - Valerie Fuqua - Developmental Editor, Author, Artist, and Medium
I have spent many years writing, editing and learning to connect with readers as an autistic author.
We talk about Developmental Editing, Authorship and Austism
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EPISODE 405 - Eden Gruger - The Very Important Reader Gang, Ebooks and Helping Authors Write
Welcome, I'm Eden Gruger
You can find out about my books modern fiction collections, non-fiction guides on how to become a successful author.
Get my hints, tips, help and support to write, publish, and market your own work Make Your Book A Reality Masterclass Membership,
Eden Gruger The Writer's Mentor
It's ok to be overwhelmed by everything you need to know to get your book into the world. Let me give you the knowledge and inspiration you need to get your book written, edited, published and launched, and save you £1,000's on things you don't need.
Together we can Make Your Book A Reality! Eden
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Episode 404 - Karin Thompson - My Journey to Enjoying My Life, Wisdom and Strength For Readers
Meet Karin - Motivator By Heart
As an author, I have a passion for writing books that will keep
people turning the pages and giving them something a little deeper
to think about long after the last page has been read.
My Journey to Enjoy My Life
I am honored to share my first book with you. I pray that my book - My Journey to Enjoying My Life, will encourage and motivate you to reach for more and help you grow into all God has for you. May the words on these pages give you wisdom and strength to move from your past to a brighter future.
Can a woman deeply hurt by life’s circumstances be healed, heart and soul? Can she live an everyday life again? The answer is a loud YES! Learn how God’s grace can help you recover from emotional wounds and abuse in this spiritually uplifting book to live a beautiful, healing, and fulfilling life.
Outwardly, you may look fine, but inside, they are a wreck. Your past has broken and wounded you inwardly. God has a plan. Isaiah 61 reveals that the Lord came to heal the brokenhearted. He wants to heal victims of abuse and emotional wounding.
Karin Thompson is a victim of childhood abuse–physically, mentally, and emotionally. Today, she has learned to let the pain go, leave the past behind, and enjoy her life.
In my book–My Journey To Enjoying Your Life, you will learn:
- How to deal with the emotional pain of abuse
- How to understand your responsibility to God for overcoming abuse
- How to forgive your abuser
- How to grab hold of God’s unconditional love
- How to move forward into your bright future
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Episode 403 - Corey Croft - Never be boring - I have a passion for storytelling fueled by black coffee, cigarettes, and dread
About the author
Corey Croft is from Surrey BC, Canada. His use of gallows humor helps to him stumble gracefully in a meaningless world. He avoids eye contact with strangers and doesn’t understand most kinds of science. As a child he was taken to church every Sunday and worried that every time it rained it would flood, biblically. As an adult, the rain is pretty good for writing and sleeping.
Book: Scumbag Rehab - You hear all kinds of stories in a bar. All kinds of characters with all kinds of experiences. Booze is a mighty fuel. It brings out the best in some and the worst in every one else. If you post up on a barstool long enough, you might hear someone’s entire life story, whether you asked for it or not.
If that barstool happens to be plugged into the wood at the Knowlton Tavern, then the story you would be hearing might belong to James ‘Feb’ February. Only at a dive bar full of the most desperate, strange societal castaways could an individual such as him share a story like his. https://amzn.to/4eu3m8T
Book: Becoming Buddha - Most self-help books will describe remedies and issue lessons to escape the perverted spiral of depression and anxiety. They will aim at improving the quality of one's life and inform choices and states of mind that nurture a healthy and productive psyche. https://amzn.to/3Rx5CCw
Book: The Furies - The Furies is a coming of age dark young adult fiction that takes place in the mid 1990's. It draws influences from the hip-hop culture and contains many references of the time. It is a nostalgic and gritty look at the urban underbelly of youth culture and the vulnerability of the working-class at the time. It is a harrowing tale, yet easy to relate for anyone who has ever been a teenager and experienced love, hate, pride and fear. It is a must for readers of any literary fiction genre; with compelling characters, realistic dialogue and the vivid scenery of the city. It is both heartfelt and hard-hitting, poignant and charming. https://amzn.to/4cplKhw
Book: Coward: A Novel - Sam is not a coward; he is a perfect coward.He is depressed, lonely and all but set on living out his life in numb mediocrity. Lucy is a strange and powerful man with a bizarre and nefarious interest in Sammy. After a ‘chance’ meeting, Lucy gifts Sam with abilities far greater than anything his uncreative imagination could’ve ever dreamed of. For his part, Sam must learn to control this mysterious power by either rising above his weaknesses or giving in to them entirely.
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Episode 402 - Hannah Levin - The Treasured One, Romantasy Genre, ADHD Impacts on Writing
Hannah Levin (she/her) is a neurodivergent dog mom from the East Coast, USA. By day, she writes repetitive marketing copy to pay the bills, and by night, she writes fantasy romance/Romantasy to feed fellow romantics and dreamers. She has several projects in the works at any given time. You can connect with Hannah over Instagram and Threads @authorhlevin; she loves to hear from readers!
Experienced readers and writers will know that it takes time to develop a writing voice. However, Hannah would describe her style as fresh, easy reading with a balance of plot and spice, relatable characters, and gradual relationship development. She's a big fan of a slow burn and always strives to bring an element of realism to her books, no matter how far-fetched the plot. Additionally, she enjoys writing standalones for other readers with a short attention span who don't often have the energy for long, intensive series with deep lore and large-scale world building.
Book: The Treasured One: A Fae Fantasy Romance - Forced to choose between loyalty and love...
Avery is a Golden Child with the ability to heal any illness or injury. She lives a sheltered life, dutifully healing hopefuls from around the globe. Although she dreams of freedom, she fears disrupting the status quo—that is, until her powers go on the fritz, threatening her health and her relationship with her government caretakers.
In search of answers, Avery travels through The Rift to the realm of the fae, intimidatingly beautiful beings with powers humans don’t understand. Their prince, Riel, has motivations of his own when he agrees to teach her about her rare magic. But as they work together, the two are drawn to each other.
Just as Avery manages to unlock the full potential of her powers, a betrayal shakes Riel’s House, putting pressure on the already tenuous relationship between humans and the fae. Caught in the middle, Avery and Riel will have to decide what matters most to them: loyalty to their respective nations, or their feelings for one another.
This debut novel from Hannah Levin will appeal to those new to the Romantasy genre as well as seasoned Romantasy fans who enjoy adventure and world-building, such as that in A DEAL WITH THE ELF KING and THE CRUEL PRINCE, and sweet, slow-burn romance like Grace Draven's RADIANCE.https://amzn.to/3LqIJgohttps://authorhlevin.weebly.com/
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Episode 401 - Chris Turek - Audiobook Narration Tips for Authors - How To Work With Your Next Voice Over Talent
Chris is here to talk about how to work with a voice over talent for your next audiobook - Chris has many credits to his name (voice) and he is available to work with you!
Chris' voiceover career began innocuously enough by recording producer tags for a local indie musician.
Having spent 4 years in morning radio, Chris is your go-to guy for smooth, velvety narration as well as punchy, intense branding. No project is out of his comfort zone, as his versatility suits audiobooks, , corporate narration, commercials, or anything you can think of. his enthusiastic and professional approach ensures you receive a product of the utmost quality in a very timely manner.
Reviews
“I cannot recommend Chris enough. Not only is he insanely talented, but he’s also incredibly easy to work with. He takes a collaborative approach with the author, and truly cares about making sure the end product is the highest possible quality. I literally cannot imagine anyone else being able to do what Chris did with my litany of different characters and their various accents. He’s a one man theater troupe with a naturally incredible narrator voice. I could seriously listen to him read takeout menus. You will not regret working with him. I want him to narrate every novel that I write.
-E.S. Oliver
“Chris was amazing to work with. My book had quite a few versatile characters with different voices. He was able to keep characters separate as well as narrating with inflection and articulation. Chris brought the book to life rather than just ‘reading through it’ as some narrators tend to do. I am more than happy with the results and I will be calling on Mr. Turek in the future.”
-Gary Hickman
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Episode 400 - Dominick Domasky - Celebrating 400 Episodes - Beginning, Middle, End and What's the Win
It is our 400th episode, and as we have done every 100 episodes, the guy that posed the idea for this podcast returns to share more motivation and to champion authors is back!
Dominick Domasky, arrived at writing books and motivational speaking with a unique background. Mr. Domasky doesn’t claim to have climbed Mt. Everest or be an Olympic Gold Medalist; Dominick is proud to say, he’s just a guy trying to find success. He learned the value of hard work as a young boy pulling weeds and picking up cigarette butts while working for his father’s landscape company.
Even though Dominick has been punched, jobless, broke, cut from the team, and out of business, with the help of those early lessons and a belief in himself, he refuses to ever give up.
Rather than look back at the past with ill will, Dominick instead guides us to find humor and strength in our failures. Dominick lives by the age-old saying, “That which does not kill us, only makes us stronger.” He wrote the hit inspirational book, “Don’t Double Bread The Fish” coauthored and created The Amazon Bestseller “The Unofficial Guide to Fatherhood.”
Since 2016, Motivation Champs has worked with authors across the globe to help make their publishing dreams become reality. Some of our recent publications are Don’t Worry- 5 Steps to Manage Anxiety and Stress, Godly Men Make Godly Fathers, Convertible Conversations, and Barney’s Clubhouse Adventure.
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Episode 439 - Brock Williams - Helping Men of Color Overcome Obstacles Pertaining To Mental Health
Brock Williams
AUTHOR | POET | MENTAL HEALTH ADVOCATE
Brock has set out to helping men heal, even take his message overseas. Motivating men to seek treatment and make their mental health a priority.
Whether it’s depression, anxiety, bipolar, OCD, or ADHD.
Let’s heal together!?
Men are often taught to suppress their emotions and not get help. But how can you heal if you don’t know how you feel?
Learn how Brock is helping men heal and overcome obstacles with the release of his poetic memoir “Shake The Dust Off Your Soul”.
A refreshing inspirational journey through the trials of life and mental health that leads to greatness, inner strength, and resilience.
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**Episode 399 - Sara Lohse - Author of Open This Book, the art of storytelling for aspiring thought leaders
About the author**
Sara Lohse is a storyteller, marketer, and brand architect with a knack for turning narratives into connections. Through Favorite Daughter Media, Sara uses her passion and talent to help mission-driven brands amplify their impact, proving that authentic storytelling and strategic marketing go hand in hand.
Sara's work and expertise, featured on conference stages including FinCon, PodFest Multimedia Expo, and Speakonomics and in publications such as Authority Magazine, showcase her as a gifted creator fueled by passion and caffeine, dedicated to making a difference through powerful storytelling and marketing.
Open This Book: The Art of Storytelling for Aspiring Thought Leaders
Everybody has a story. They just don't know it yet.
Ever think that silly story you tell to break the ice could actually be a breakthrough for your career? Welcome to Open This Book: The Art of Storytelling for Aspiring Thought Leaders, where we're ditching the textbook definitions and embracing storytelling as the heart of authentic leadership.
This isn’t your average "how-to" guide. Imagine it as a heart-to-heart with a friend who’s seen their fair share of life’s plot twists and learned how careful word choice and a smooth delivery can turn chaos into clarity and mishaps into powerful messages.
Because the secret to being a thought leader–a content creator, podcaster, speaker, author–is knowing how to transform those "just another day" experiences into an arsenal for connecting in a world that’s scrolling past the same old content.
Open This Book is your backstage pass to understanding why storytelling isn’t just for the Shakespeares and Spielbergs of the world. Designed as part book, part journal (but no part textbook), this book is for anyone who’s ever had a “you can’t make this up” moment (and let’s be honest, who hasn’t?). From crafting your narrative to delivering it in a way that feels like a mic drop, we’ll explore the ins and outs of telling stories that connect, challenge, and change the game of leadership.
So, if you’re ready to turn your misadventures into your mission statement, you’ve come to the right place. Because if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that the best stories are hiding in plain sight—they just need a little nudge (or a full-on shove) into the spotlight.
This isn’t just about finding your voice; it’s about discovering that your voice, quirks and all, is exactly what the world’s been waiting to hear.
What are you waiting for? Open this book.
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Episode 398 - Lea Appleton - Walking & Wayfinding, Create Your Own Mindful Practice, One Step at a Time - Create Your Own Path as You Walk Upon It
Join Lea Appleton on an inspiring journey along the coast of Southern California and through the neighborhoods near her home in Walking & Wayfinding: Create Your Own Mindful Practice, One Step at a Time. Originally planning to walk the Camino de Santiago in Spain, Lea's path took an unexpected turn due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Undeterred, she embarked on a series of more local walks that became a source of profound self-discovery and awareness.
In this captivating book, Lea shares her personal reflections and stories, inviting you to join her in exploring the transformative power of walking. Whether you're a seasoned walker or someone who's never ventured beyond your doorstep, this book is your guide to cultivating a deeper connection with yourself and the world around you.
Through journal prompts, questions for reflection, and practical tips, Walking & Wayfinding empowers you to create your own mindful walking practice. Discover how each step can lead you closer to understanding yourself and the path you're meant to walk.
If you're seeking motivation, a deeper connection with nature or the city in which you live, or simply a new way to engage with your daily surroundings, Walking & Wayfinding is the perfect companion for your journey.
About the author
Lea Appleton is a professional certified coach helping working professionals live meaningful lives. She also works in the outdoor industry. For over 20 years she helped build multicultural and interreligious communities in higher education. While the combination of these diverse experiences may seem unconventional, when put together they help shape her writing style into one that is approachable, educational, inspiring, and authentic.
When not coaching or writing, Lea likes to spend time in her vegetable garden, hiking the local mountains, or taking photographs of things that catch her eye outdoors. Lea has a Master of Arts in Music, a Master of Divinity degree, and holds the Professional Certified Coach (PCC) credential from the International Coaching Federation. She lives with her husband Billy and has three adult children.
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Episode 397 - Rachel Fowler - Writer, Actor, Director and Grief Coach - Hold Space For Those That Grieve
Grief is transformative. It changes us, moulds us into something new. It takes intention and reflection and being present to fully appreciate the metamorphosis, and to accept it, welcome it, turn towards it.
My mission is to give you a safe, comforting space to feel all the big feelings and conflicting emotions around the changes, losses or uncertainty you are facing.
I'll guide you through, I'll listen and I'll witness.
Together we'll remember, we'll explore, we'll reframe, we'll tap into your creativity, we'll cry and we'll laugh.
My dad died after a long hospital stay and failure to thrive after several complicated surgeries. My 13 year old nephew died from a drug overdose on my daughters birthday.
In both of these incidents, I experienced beautiful kindness and emotional support from some and the painful recoil and avoidance from others. The fear and discomfort of the latter stung in so many ways, adding little cuts to my emotionally bruised self. I dissected those cuts, those moments. Intellectually, I knew they weren’t about me, but they pierced my core, they offended me still, and oh man, they HURT SO MUCH. Grief is so isolating to begin with, and these made me spend most of my energy holding myself together, strapping my emotions in – all so I wouldn’t make others uncomfortable.
And I learned that the pain subsided as I shifted my focus to the helpers.
As Mr. Rogers says, “Look for the helpers. You’ll always find people who are helping.” Those who sat with me while I wept, unable to speak. Those who held my hand, who took me to the airport, who watched Grace for a bit, who dropped off food, who remembered to ask me how I was and listen, even if I didn’t want to answer.
The idea of holding space become more and more prominent in my creative work: I wrote and directed a short film about it, and am currently working on a Young Adult novel with this as a central theme. I also trained as a coach in late 2019, and as we lived through the first wave of COVID and the lockdown of 2020, I realized that this was what I wanted to do.
I want to hold space for people in pain. Help them navigate the unchartered waters of loss and the uncertainty it brings. Explore who they are now that they have been through this challenge, this bliss.
Reveal to them that they are not broken, they are just beautifully, lovingly, painfully human.
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Episode 396 - Julia Pearce - The Boy Who Became More Than We Could Imagine, Bringing the Music Back
About Me
I am Julia. I have lived, volunteered and worked in the disability world for more than 25 years. I am a presenter at local and national conferences. I have written about personal lived experiences, communication, public policy, and advocacy. I know that everyone has something to say and that I can help them communicate and say what needs to be said. Our son, Dallin, is my muse who keeps me going in this realm.
I have been known to run up and down mountains, and work in our rock-hard patch of dirt for hours, while taking pictures through it all. I have done yoga for more than 30 years and am now learning to do mindful meditation in my everyday moments.
I am a supporter of boutiques and antique shops all along the back roads. I find fun in big gatherings and peace in small one on one moments on our north lawn. I prefer action movies to chick flicks, thanks to decades of watching movies with the boys in my house, and will seek out the sun year round.
I am married to the best man I know. He makes me laugh every day and look for the good in the world, even as we go through difficult experiences.
Book: The Boy Who Became More Than We Could Imagine
This memoir is a poignant and uplifting book that explores the life of Dallin, a young boy who was enchanted by music from the very beginning. From his earliest days as an infant, music was a source of joy and comfort, and it was always present in his life.
The author shares how, in 2013, music took on a new meaning for her after Dallin's passing. She struggled to listen to music without being overwhelmed with emotions. It took years before she could hear music again and let it bring back memories of Dallin and his love for music.
Through each chapter titled after a song, the author shares a story of Dallin's life and the experiences he had that made him the boy he was. From facing adversity to discovering new joys, Dallin lived a life that was full of music and rhythm.
This book is a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit and the power of music to heal and inspire. It invites readers to join the author on a journey through Dallin's life and to be inspired by his love for music and his unwavering spirit. "The Boy Who Became More Than We Could Imagine; How Music brought rhythm and joy into a lifetime of illness, disability and constant change for an unstoppable human." is a book that will touch the hearts of readers and remind them of the importance of cherishing every moment.
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Episode 395 - Jenny Alexander - Low Content, Relationship Author, Poetry and Self Publishing
A voice of hope for the heartbroken - If you're heartbroken, it may be for any number of reasons including but not limited to:* Divorce * A broken engagement * The death of a loved one * A friendship breakup If your heart is broken you might feel:
- Alone in your grief
- Hopeless and confused
- Stuck in the past
- Unsure of your faith If this describes you, you've come to the right place.
Hi! My name is Jenny Alexander. I'm a relationship specialist and a voice of hope for the heartbroken.
I desire to see the brokenhearted healed and set free. I offer encouragement born from experience. As a survivor of divorce, friendship breakups, and spiritual doubts, I know what it's like to grieve, to feel confused, stuck, and sometimes hopeless.
I've created this website and my other resources as guides for you. In those guides, I share strategies that helped me recover - strategies that can help you. Along with my experience, I also draw from my counselling education. I received a Master's in Human Services Counselling from Liberty University in 2016.
Feel free to browse my blog and my books. I've recently added word searches and gratitude journals to my list of creations.
You're also welcome to join my monthly newsletter.
I look forward to playing a role in your recovery. If I can help even one person, what I went through was worth it.
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Episode 394 - Bill Wittur - Climate Fiction, A New Category for Readers
EXTINCTION EVENT is a full-length fiction novel set in the present day that belongs in the speculative fiction / dystopian category.
Story Synopsis
The main character – known only as LP – tries to reinvent himself by going back to school. With some help from his recording instructor and his friends, he discovers a mystery surrounding different ‘glitches’ heard with analog versus digital recordings of popular songs. He investigates further to discover an important figure from his past who built an Artificial Intelligence (AI) platform called GAIA which is being used to spread false stories to the public but to also change the fate of the planet and its inhabitants.
Mythology ‘Easter Eggs’
This story is loaded with Easter Eggs related to different mythological sources and resources. Examples include:
- Sylvie Hunter, a key character that embodies traits related to Artemis
- John Atman, the all-knowing sage
- The Muses
- Aesop’s Fables and other animal tales
- Prometheus and the Creation Myth
- And much, much more
Climate Fiction: A New Category for Readers
This is a climate fiction, or ‘cli-fi’ story. As events transpire, the reader is brought into our world in environmental crises. There are several overlapping themes that are explored in Extinction Event, including:
- AI electricity and water use and how it will soon strangle all of us given the current increases in demand for different AI tools.
- The ‘sixth extinction’ that many scientists anticipate will start to close in on us, as all species of creatures on Earth face extinction because of human abuse of the planet.
- Different economic and political arguments surrounding resource-based capitalism and why our pace of consumption is unsustainable.
- Exploring the beauty of the different animal kingdoms that surround us and why they’re worth preserving.
Reviews
5/5: Whether “AI phobic” or not … this book will make you think
Bill Wittur’s first novel is a timely, creative and fast paced read. Imagine a world where an AI platform is asked to save the planet … and does (unfortunately for some of those who trained it). Drawing inspiration from current events and his own varied work experiences, Wittur plays with the “what if” scenarios and creates an AI heroine, GAIA, her evil taskmasters and the brilliant, committed engineer who unleashes a whole new kind of justice on earth and its inhabitants. A fun read!
5/5: Highly recommended!!
Was an excellent read! Great story and character development. It was a hard book to put down. On a side note, I also dug all the music references throughout. Do yourself a favour and grab a copy.
5/5: A fabulous read from cover to cover
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Episode 392 - Isaac Phoenix - The Different Dimensions of Story, How Game Design Shaped His Writing
What are ‘The Three Dimensions of Writing’?
I named it the Three Dimensions because A) there are three, maybe I need to find a less creative field, and B) people want three dimensional stories and characters so this is how I create them.
Step 1: Every writer needs to read The Hero With A Thousand Faces. It is done by Joseph Campbell who essentially breaks down why the oldest and most popular stories were the most popular stories and why they resonate today. It is a deep book and to get the most out of it, you must take it as figuratively as you would literally. So yeah step one is stolen, however, there is a reason.
Many famous storytellers have gone through Campbells book, George Lucas being one of the biggest names, but another man, Dan Harmon, famous for his work on television shows like Community and Rick and Morty, took the concept and simplified it. In some cases it is too simplified, and in others, Campbells is too complicated. I believe that to understand the Monomyth and use it perfectly, it is important to understand both of these interpretations, and as many interpretations of the monomyth as possible.
Step 2: Ok so this one is completely mine. So if you find flaws in my theory, this is probably the place where they pop up. While I studied writing there was a ton to learn. As a game designer I already had a ton to memorise in the field of game design. So memorising everything that had to do with writing was a challenge. I have three children and had their names memorised till the third one came around and now I can’t remember any of them. However there were four words that popped up again and again and again. They were active, reactive, internal, and external. I put together a chart with these words and applied them to every level of storytelling.
I divide my stories into the World, the Character, and the Story, and then divide it into levels: the Act, the Segment, the Scene, and the Beat. Each of these 7 segments has these four words applied to them in different ways. When you hear of second act fatigue, this is what gets me through it.
At no point do I ever have to question what happens in a story next because this always points me in the direction of where I need my characters to go.
Step 3: Pacing is a term you will hear in writing. I heard it everywhere, but I never truly understood it until I looked more into Shakespear. Before Campbell, Shakespear created what is the first Writing Theory. It was the 3 act structure. With the monomyth I don't believe we really need the 3 act structure as a writing guide, however, I realized the 3 act structure was just a huge pacing curve. So I combined them. I was able to use the three act structure to map out the pacing curve and apply it to every bit of my stories. This is important as pacing out your story is what is going to keep your audience engaged. For the game designers out there, it is just like pacing out your Differences in Kind.
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How To Be A Great Podcast Guest - Important Guesting Tips You Can Use On Your Next Interview
How to Be a Good Podcast Guest: Essential Tips
Being a good guest on a podcast is a fantastic way to share your message with a broad audience and build meaningful connections with both the hosts and listeners. A successful podcast interview benefits everyone involved, so it's crucial to come prepared and deliver your best performance. Here are some essential tips to help you shine as a podcast guest.
Preparation Tips
Listen to At Least Two Published Episodes
Before your interview, listen to at least two episodes of the podcast. This will help you understand the show's cadence and rhythm. Take note of any recurring questions, as there's a good chance the host will ask you similar ones.
Read Reviews of the Podcast
Check out audience reviews on platforms like iTunes or Spotify. These reviews can provide valuable insights into the audience's preferences and expectations, helping you tailor your message to resonate with them.
Prepare at Least Three Stories
Being a great podcast guest isn't just about answering questions; it's about storytelling. Prepare at least three engaging stories that reveal your personality and experiences. This will help you come across as natural and relatable.
Research the Topic, Host, and Other Guests
Do thorough research on the show's topic, the host's background, and any other guests who might join you. This preparation will enable you to engage in meaningful conversations and ask insightful questions, impressing both the host and the audience.
During the Show
Have a Proper Audio Setup
Ensure your audio setup is top-notch. Use quality headphones or earbuds to hear clearly and a USB microphone for better sound quality. Test your equipment before the recording starts to avoid any technical issues.
Use the Host's Name
Incorporate the host's name into your answers. This small touch keeps the conversation warm and personal.
Keep Your Answers Concise
Listeners can lose interest in long, monotonous answers. Be concise and stay on topic to keep the audience engaged.
Be Energetic and Positive
Maintain a positive and energetic demeanor throughout the interview. Avoid controversial topics and focus on being inspirational and clear in your communication.
Reference Prior Episodes
If you've listened to past episodes, mention them when relevant. This shows your preparation and can engage loyal listeners who enjoy recalling previous content.
Conclusion
Making a great impression as a podcast guest requires more effort than it might seem. Listeners can sense your energy, even if they can't see you. Honesty and authenticity are key to your success. With these tips in mind, you'll be well-prepared to ace your next podcast appearance like a pro.
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Episode 391 - Gina Coviello - A Great Life Starts with Self-Love - Surviving the Detrimental Effects of Emotional Abuse
Coach Gina
I have survived the detrimental effects of emotional abuse for 50 years, and I know how it feels to hate oneself, and to feel utterly alone in the world. Through self-love practices I have come to fully embrace and love myself. I have turned my life around and am now a self-love coach. I hope to inspire you with the wisdom I have gained, so that you will learn to love yourself all day every day and achieve the life of your dreams.
The L.O.V.E Process
This 4-step process is designed to guide you through a journey of self-discovery and growth, leading to a life filled with love, joy, and fulfillment.
Listen To Your Heart:
Tune into your inner voice and acknowledge your true feelings and desires.
Overcome Obstacles:
Identify and address the barriers that hinder your journey to self-love.
Validate Your Worth:
Recognize and celebrate your inherent worthiness and unique strengths.
Embark On Change:
Take proactive steps towards nurturing self-love and transforming your life.
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Episode 390 - Brigitte Cutshall - Real Things Living Podcast - Empowering Others From Just Surviving to Thriving
Meet Brigitte.
Brigitte is the founder of Gemini Media, host of Real Things Living Podcast, a Health Advocate and focuses on delivering the best solutions to her clients. She’s an accomplished business development professional in the communications, publishing and print management industry.
One of Brigitte’s goals is to “empower others from just surviving to thriving” and participates in wellness events. She’s a speaker and the author of three books – RealThings: 6 Ways to Embrace Life , Expecting the Good: Inspiration from a Badass with a Big Heart , and Quality Book Formula – and successfully develops content for wellness and healthy lifestyles, resulting in being featured as a contributing writer on HuffingtonPost, DrLaura.com, Intent.com, Wellness.com, Sharecare.com, and TheMomiverse.
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Episode 389 - Gail Hugman - Helping parents and children work together on their education as a teamAbout
You can spend many thousands of pounds on school and tutor fees to ensure that your child gets the best start in life but this investment can be seriously undermined by their lack of motivation, attitude or weak learning skills. I help to put this right. Using exceptional tools and resources, I design and deliver inspirational teaching sessions specifically for your child in your home or via Skype to help them become a happy, enthusiastic, motivated youngster who is reaching potential, proud of themselves and their achievements and a real credit to you.
I have forty years teaching experience on which to draw when designing teaching sessions for individual children. Passionate about human development, the neuroscience of learning and key skills, my work focuses on ensuring your child gets specifically what they need to have a positive mindset, great attitude and the drive to succeed. I know there isn't time to teach this in school and that the majority of parents do not have either the time, skills or knowledge to do it themselves.
I have an excellent track record supporting children through entrance exams up to and including 13+ into many of the leading schools in the country both internally and via Skype/FaceTime when they are relocating from abroad to the UK.
If you agree that that your child 'could do better' and you want to do something about it, get in touch, I'd love to hear from you.
Book: Making the Pennies Drop - This practical guide to understanding how your child works by Gail Hugman follows on from 100 Things to Learn Before You're 10, and A short and Simple book for the Why's.
Gail shares her innovative approach that helps parents and caregivers not just support their children, to learn the skills they need for a successful life, but to work with them as a team.
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**Episode 388 - Evelyn Garland - Children's Author, Working With An Illustrator and a Message for Parents
About the author**
Evelyn G. is a writer,entrepreneur,poet and an author. This is her first children’s book “The Reason I Held You Close “. Writing is something she has always enjoyed. However timing was not always there. This book started out as a poem she wrote several years ago. Now ready to share her writing with the world and begin a new journey in life.
Book: The Reason I Held You Close - Take a journey through the love parents have for their children as they raise them. The outlook of possibilities and reasons you want to hold them close from the moment you first lay eyes on them in "The Reason I Held You Close".
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Episode 387 - Kelsey Ellis - Tap Into and Reawaken Wonder - Take the Wonder Challenge
We get a little "sappy" in this episode - we turn the wonder up with this great new book - Reawaken Wonder!
Reawaken Wonder: Discover joy in the beauty of the everydayReawaken Wonder is an inspiration for all of those who are currently overwhelmed, but whose hearts spark with hope at the thought of wonder. Through a myriad of stories, Kelsey takes you from the busyness of everyday life to magical moments of wonder, reviving your own memories of wonder and aiding in the experience of new wonders in your present day.
Reawaken Wonder guides you through four simple steps to experiencing wonder: Decide wonder is important, Seek wonder daily, Receive wonder when it comes and Share wonder with others. Renew your desire for wonder by understanding its significance in affecting your daily life. With four practical activities, this book invites you to continue living in wonder beyond the pages.
About the author
Kelsey K. Ellis is a wonder-seeker extraordinaire. She spends her days homeschooling her four children while getting thoroughly distracted by the beautiful little details in life. You can find her eating fresh tomatoes from the garden, holding still while listening to the birds, or barefoot and ankle-deep in a creek, lake or ocean.
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Episode 386 - David Mark Quigley - Tackling Dyslexia by Writing a Book, and Saving Animals
A native New Zealander, David Mark Quigley worked variously as a farmer, vineyard owner, clinical hypnotherapist, and serial entrepreneur. Traveling extensively chasing adventure across Europe, Australia, and Africa, he has been obsessed with animals and nature ever since.
Inspired by his travels, he decided to tackle his dyslexia by writing a book, Scars of the Leopard and unexpectedly discovered his love of writing, and wrote two further action adventures, White Gold and African Lion. He is a sculptor and produces striking wildlife sculptures cast in silver, alongside running an international environmental consultancy.
He lives in Naples, Florida, with his wife and numerous furry freeloaders, in a home he built in his spare time.
With your purchase of any of my books you are seamlessly donating to a worthy cause, as a portion of all proceeds for my books goes to Wildlife Preservation. Thank you for your part in protecting wildlife! Click here to find out more about the Quigley Wildlife Foundation
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Episode 385 - Ben Stimpson - Ancestral Whispers, A Guide to Building Ancestral Veneration Practices
Ancestral Whispers: A Guide to Building Ancestral Veneration Practices
(Llewellyn Worldwide Ltd, 2023)
Build a strong, healthy relationship with your ancestors using this guide to the concepts and considerations of ancestral veneration. This tradition non-specific book presents historical and cultural examples of veneration from around the world, the ins and outs of ritual practice, and inspiring stories related to grief and building community.
Ben Stimpson shows you the role ancestors can play in daily life and encourages you to explore deeper questions about the living and the dead. Sharing meditations and journal prompts, Ben helps you connect with your ancestors and develop an authentic, living practice. He introduces you to the various types of ancestors, such as blood, adoption, and affinity, and discusses the physical elements of practice, including sacred space, props, and offerings. This book encourages you to explore your beliefs and create a legacy for current and future generations.
Ben Stimpson (He/They/Them) is an integrative therapist, spiritual director, author, podcaster, and scholar of folklore and history. Originally hailing from North Wales, UK, he has lived much of his life in Ontario, Canada.
Ben’s academic and professional record is varied with focusses in social work, counselling, and the humanities. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Studies minoring in Classical, Medieval and Religious studies (University of Waterloo, 2023); a Diploma in Spiritual Psychotherapy (Transformational Arts College, 2019); and, a Diploma in Social Service Work (Humber College, 2007). He is professionally associated with the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) as a Registered Member, working towards Accreditation.
One of Ben’s major interests is the intersection of storytelling and personal development, particularly the power of individual and communal narratives in our lives. Ben’s interest in folklore and spirituality collides with his other interests of fandom and geek culture in client’s therapy work. To discover more about this integrative approach, please visit the Counselling or Spiritual Direction pages.
Ben is the author of Ancestral Whispers: A Guide to Developing Ancestral Veneration Practices (Llewellyn, 2023), a guide for individuals to develop spiritual relationships with their ancestors. He is currently working on new projects to be delivered in 2025 with Crossed Crow Books.
Ben is the host of “Essence with Ben Stimpson” a weekly podcast where he interviews fellow authors and spiritual practitioners in the fields of NeoPaganism, Traditional Witchcraft, folklore, therapy, and the queer community. Essence is available both on Youtube and on major podcast hosting sites
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**Episode 384 - Lyndsey Getty - Overthink - A Simple Guide to Calm Your Thoughts
About the author**
Lyndsey Getty is a researcher and innovator dedicated to bridging the gap between mental wellness education and practical implementation. Developing effective strategies, she empowers others to improve their quality of life by improving the quality of their thoughts. The perspectives and methods she imparts are derived from her experience of overcoming c-PTSD, depression, and anxiety. A survivor of domestic violence, she adopts a trauma-informed approach and takes pride in not only teaching revolutionary methods but also serving as living proof of their efficacy.
Book: Overthink explores the unproductive thoughts commonly misidentified as "overthinking" and shows you a simple 3-step technique to help you reframe your thoughts and create a healthier mindset.
Written in easy-to-understand terms and filled with over 30 real-life examples, Overthink takes a revolutionary and lighthearted approach to combating the serious and common issue of "overthinking."
You will learn a new spin on commonly used techniques like visualization and meditation. However, these are only supports to the life-changing information and innovative reframing technique presented in Overthink.
Endorsed by therapists and written by someone in remission from C-PTSD, depression, and anxiety, this straightforward guidebook will not only help you calm your thoughts but also facilitate long-lasting change.
- Enjoy original techniques, not just the same old recycled information.
- Writing prompts and templates are included; no additional workbook purchase required.
- Learn about how your unconscious mind operates and build a growth mindset.
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Episode 383 - Mia Hanks - Bride-Made, A Memoir - one woman's journey from being groomed by a narcissist
Book - Bride-Made: A Memoir Kindle Edition
Millions of people are the unknowing victims of narcissists. By the time they realize who they are dealing with, they are often so invested in the relationship that getting out can become both daunting and dangerous. This book is one woman's journey from being groomed by a narcissist, slowly realizing she is in a toxic relationship, to eventually escaping to reclaim her self worth. Through her story you will see how narcissistic behavior wears down the self esteem, self value, and identity of its victims. This book hopes to enlighten others and encourage awareness.
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Episode 382 - Kelly Snider - The Gift of Your Story - Podcasting and Authors, how they connect
Kelly Snider is a bestselling author and story curator who thoughtfully collects and preserves stories through creating events, writing books, interviewing guests on her podcast and facilitating life-changing story workshops. She is an expert at extracting stories and identifying value and strength within the narrative. As an acclaimed event producer, she highlights her clients' individual stories, needs and goals. Since the 1996, Kelly's story-focused events have raised over twelve million dollars net for charities around the world.
*Kelly brings her mission of supporting and inspiring others to life through sharing the stories that connect us all, and her generosity in sharing her own stories of overcoming adversity and challenge has emboldened thousands to find the freedom and strength to share their own. Through her platforms The Power of Story Conference 2017, the Epic Exchanges Podcast, and the Epic Exchanges collaborative anthologies, she helps people find the true gifts within their stories and share them in order to inspire others and transform lives. She thrives in finding ways to connect people and may be slightly obsessed with hummingbirds, the ocean and deep and meaningful conversations.
Book:* Your Story Your Strength: Discover Healing From Tragedy, Reveal Resilience and Leave a Lasting Legacy
Smoke rose from the home in the pre-dawn light. A kind stranger stopped his car and ran to the house, sending his daughter to wake the neighbours and call the fire department. Inside, he could hear the screams of a child.
This day began Kelly Snider's journey towards discovering the incredible power of story. Power to not only understand the events of her life, but also to see patterns, find healing, foster better relationships and to discover her strengths and even her purpose. And this undeniable, awe-inspiring, life-changing power lies within EVERY story. Including yours.
No matter who you are or what you've been through, there's a lesson, a gift, in your story. In these pages you can find that healing, that lesson or gift, and then discover your own way to share that story with the world to encourage healing in others. Take this journey and free yourself to embrace your true self and purpose.
That is the power of your story.
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Episode 381 - Kathy Imabayashi - Supporting Parents Raising Boys Who Become Remarkable Men - Intentionally Parenting Your Son From Birth To 8
About Me
My name is Kathryne Savage Imabayashi, a Canadian educator, parent, and coach, residing in Fukuoka, Japan. During a rich career in education spanning four decades, I have been dedicated to empowering children, parents and teachers to be their best and do their best. Having experienced a variety of countries and cultures, both as a teacher and a school leader, my perspective of the critical role parents play in the life of a child has deeply impacted my mission.
Almost three decades ago, an innocent outing with my son carved out my life’s purpose: becoming a passionate advocate for boys. “As a ‘gang of boys’ approached us that day, I was filled with a deep, guttural fear. For no other reason than that they were boys. When I imagined someone in the future feeling that same fear when my son approached, simply because he was male, I knew I had to learn more and then had to find a way to make this world a better place for our boys.”
I have been on a mission for almost 25 years to understand and then share with others the emotional world of boys, and the pressures society places on them. I have listened to your podcast and wonder if perhaps we might have the ingredients for a great conversation - and the chance to reach as many people as possible to understand more about boys.
The discord between what expectations are and how boys really feel often results in them shutting down their true self and resorting to misbehavior, rebellion or depression.
Since retiring, I have been able to pursue my passion full time. In less than two years I have created a business (sonhoodcoaching.com), published two on-line courses (The Blueprint: How to Intentionally Parent Your Son & The 7 SuperPowers Parents of Boys Need ), published a book and co-authoring another, and have used social media to share my knowledge of boys (instagram, facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube).
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**Episode 380 - Jason Harris - Good Grief - 5 Questions that reframe the loss of a loved one
ABOUT JASON**
Jason Harris is a certified celebrant, published author and lay grief counselor. He brings a unique approach to funeral / memorial services that will honor the memory of your loved one. Families request Jason's services when they want a CELEBRATION of their loved one's life more than a sermon.
Jason is passionate about living well after loss and guiding people through the grieving process. He also shares insightful advice on how to respond to others who are grieving. His book, "Good Grief. Celebrate Your Life" is available in online stores including Barnes & Nobles, Amazon, and others.
Book: Good Grief. Celebrate Your Life
This book is for everyone who has lost a loved one or knows someone who has. In Good Grief. Celebrate Your Life, Jason gently steers the reader into a different perspective of each of these topics and offers hope and counsel to people who grope for answers in difficult situations: "What do I say to someone who is grieving?" "Why make a fuss over my funeral? I'll be dead and gone. This book will help you not only in your personal journey of grief but also will guide you in ways to get your arms around others who are grieving, along with fun suggestions of celebrating the lives of your loved ones who are still here with you now.
Get ready for an intimate, personal, one-on-one conversation with Jason, then use the information to help others celebrate life too.
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Episode 379 - Annie Bourke - Telepathic animal communication mentor - Providing peace of mind for animal parents
About the author
Annie lives north of Brisbane in Queensland, Australia.
She is passionate about animals, and is committed to being an advocate for them and being a voice for them. As an animal communicator and animal medium, she enjoys chatting with animals, learning from their wisdom and passing on messages to their carers.
"The Bridge to Animal Consciousness" is her first book, released on August 8th 2018, and through this Annie aims to raise global consciousness about animals, why they are here, and how we can help them.
Annie is also intrigued by our spiritual purpose and soul evolution journey. She is a Certified Clinical Aromatherapist, Crystal therapist, Reiki Master, Angel Intuitive, Medical Intuitive, Clairvoyant and Medium. She loves supporting healing for animals and humans.
Her second book "Evolving Hearts and Souls - The Guide to Spiritual Awakening" will be released on September 2nd 2018.
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Book: The Bridge To Animal Consciousness
Since the dawn of creation, animals and humans have shared Earth together.
There is however a significant gap with understanding why animals are here, why they choose us, what they are trying
to tell us, and how by helping them they can help us.
Join animal conversationalist and medium Annie Bourke as she builds the bridge to understanding
animal consciousness through sharing her stories and knowledge with humour and compassion.
In this book, Annie will explain:
*Why animals are here
*Animal reincarnation and their soul journeys
*How to welcome a new animal into your household, and how to say goodbye
*How to enrich the lives of animals
*What we can do to prevent animal extinction and peacefully co-exist
Animals matter.
They are wise beings who can help us on our journey. The more we understand them, the richer our lives are.
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Episode 378 - Jon Sansone - Successful Sales is Not An Accident - Become a Sales Warrior
My name is Jon Sansone (san-sew-nee) and I have spent over 31 incredible years as a professional sales person.
After leaving advertising in my early 20s, I went to work for a Fortune500 start-up where through cold calling went from zero customers to 300 customers over a 5-year period. I did this through connecting with prospects and showing them the value of my offering. I set many sales records and won personal best awards for many years. Next, I followed the trend and went into software and hardware solutions sales for the next 8 years. I started inside, but soon found myself traveling the country where I again set records and was awarded the President’s Club many years later.
Currently I work in professional consulting for a Fortune100 company where I work with many high net-worth clients and continue to set records specifically in the area of new client development. I enjoy boating with family, outdoor activities with friends and I currently host an international Podcast on YouTube called, “School’s Out 80’s Comedy Channel.”
Lastly, I am the author of the successful book Sales Warrior on Amazon.
Over 30 Years Ago...
I arrived in Dallas, Texas with 300 bucks and two weeks later it was spent on car repairs. I took a job waiting tables for the lunch rush and I interviewed in the afternoons. I would change into a suit in my car or in a gas station and go after my dream. I am just a country boy from Missouri who wanted to be someone.
I am now debt free, I boat several times a year and we have a white horse named Trigger. I am not saying wealth buys you happiness. I had to be happy before I could have wealth. I just want you to know that you can pursue your dreams if you make it happen.
I want to spark that fire to help you make it happen.
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EPISODE 377 - Denise Bard - A teachers impact isn't found within the subject they teach
As a child, Denise spent years facing many forms of abuse. In addition to the physical and verbal abuse, she also endured sexual abuse while in the care of a parent, where she became a form of payment for their drug addiction. After attempting to take her own life in 1989, when Denise was 14 years old, she was brought to a nonprofit shelter for runaway and abused kids. It was there that she learned how to shift her focus and found support from her counselors, teachers, and a coach which helped change the trajectory of her life and the horror she was born into. Because of the small moments of hope that these women gave her, she was able to create her own success story.
Today, Denise shares her experience of facing abuse and how she found power and resilience in the smallest moments of hope that teachers gave her. “30-second moments. It only takes 30 seconds to feel something so deep that it transcends the time it takes for someone to say something to you that you need to hear.” Denise shares a quote her daughter said to her, “Mom, I am so happy they (teachers/counselors/shelter) raised you because I love the way you raised me.”
She is the author of 30-Second Moments: And The Women Who Raised ME. Her story was also featured in the book “Listen - Stories We Carry With Us From House to House". A collection of stories, drawings and poems from youth currently in the foster care system or those who had experience in the system and adult survivors from around the world. Denise is also a special needs advocate and youth advocate. She sits on The Board of Directors for Anchor House Inc. the Trenton, NJ nonprofit shelter that helped her go from being just “something” to becoming “someone”.
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EPISODE 376 - Ryan Estrada - Artist, Author and Adventurer - Garfield, Cartoons, Movies and More
Student Ambassador is my series of fun globe-trotting adventure stories for kids who want to see the world and make it a better place. Each story is inspired by my own travels, but turned into an action-adventure comedy! Readers can solve the mystery along with the character using real fun facts about the world. The Missing Dragon covers a kidnapping in Korea and Japan, while The Silver City is a monster mystery in the mines of Mexico. Both feature amazing art by the great Axur Eneas!
Ryan Estrada is an artist, author, and adventurer. His books include Banned Book Club, Occulted, No Rules Tonight, and the Student Ambassador series. He has worked for Star Trek, Popeye, Flash Gordon, and Garfield.
He was a gator wrangler in America, an ambassador to Australia, an undocumented animator in Canada, a ghostbuster in South Korea, a Bollywood voiceover actor in India, wandered Kim Jong Il's secret tunnels to North Korea, slept on a bench in a typhoon in Japan, dug toilets in Thailand, did an accidental illegal border crossing into Burma, made road comics in Cambodia, Malaysia, Singapore, Laos, Vietnam and The Philippines, documentaries in Colombia and Ecuador, and podcasts in Malaysia, ran with the bulls in Mexico, barely escaped being eaten by lions in Kenya, fainted atop Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, got caught in a Peruvian coca war, lived in a Costa Rican rainforest and a Panamanian volcano.
RANDOM FACTS
-Ryan started pitching comics to newspapers when he was six. He bothered the same newspaper until they finally hired him at age sixteen.
-Ryan accidentally invented the word normcore. It was a punchline to one of his comics before Oxford English Dictionary named it runner up word of the year.
-Ryan holds the world record for consecutive comic making after attempting and surpassing the 168 hour comic; one page per hour for a full week.
-Ryan ran @forexposure_txt, the popular artists rights novelty twitter account, for ten years
-Ryan was once interviewed by the BBC about a prank he pulled on Vladimir Putin. He'd been the official cartoonist of LiveJournal before Putin had the company bought out so he could move the servers in Russia and use them to shut down activists. He forgot that Ryan still had the legal and technological ability to make comics about their mascot speaking out against this and post them to the official site.
-Ryan does free virtual workshops and author visits for any school, library or book club that asks! Here is a listing of some of his workshops. Drop him a line to set something up!
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Episode 375 - Lainne Love - You Were Meant For More, Puzzles, and A Bigger Mission
I am just like you.
I have spent years looking for answers.
Seeking ways to make my life better. Desperate to find the "thing" that was going to allow change to take place and catapult my life into a new direction; a happier, healthier, and abundant one.
I spent tens of thousands of dollars and invested lots of time and energy into figuring out what was "wrong" with me, why I was stuck.
I dug deep, deeper still, and crawled up from the dark depths of myself, faced fears, fought many battles. Won some and lost some. And always got back up. It was rarely pretty. But I got up.
Turns out there was nothing wrong with me. I wasn't broken. I didn't need to be fixed.
I needed to re-wire some subconscious beliefs, restructure my energetic field, re-establish my connection to divinity, let my soul be free, and move through the challenges that appeared to have a hold on my life.
Ultimately, I learned that challenges are opportunities, they are guiding us through to our next steps. How we meet and navigate those challenges defines our experience of life.
Thank you for showing up for yourself, for loving yourself, and for taking action.
You are amazing. A one-of-a-kind wonder. You are here for a reason.
I believe in you and your power.
Wishing you the greatest success on your journey to self-mastery.
You were meant for more. Claim it!
Book: How To Use Hypnosis To Master Your Brain
In this book you’ll discover:
- How to transcend trauma
- Break free from self-destructive habits
- Use hypnotic suggestion to transform yourself
- Rewire your perceptions to support your best life
- Change your habits to upgrade your experience
Plus, BONUS MATERIAL at www.howtousehypnosisbook.com to gain access to a powerful hypnosis process to support you in creating and sustaining the change you desire.
Book: A Bigger Mission: You Were Meant For More Learn How To Claim It
Ever Felt Like There's More to Life? You're Right...
"A Bigger Mission" by The Badass Professionals isn't just a book. It's a catalyst. A spark to ignite your inner fire and reveal the realm of possibilities.
Why This Book Will Speak to Your Soul
It's like a heart-to-heart with friends who've seen tough times and emerged victorious. Each story, each lesson is drenched in authenticity, resilience, and real-life revelations...
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Episode 393 - Adam Nimoy - The Most Human, Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
Adam was born during the Eisenhower administration to Leonard and Sandra Zoberblatt Nimoy. He attended the University Elementary School, a “lab school” run by UCLA, where he was subjected to numerous psychological experiments. The experimentation continued at UC Berkeley in the form of mind-altering substances from which he may, or may not, have fully recovered. In a state of absolute certainty, Adam attended Loyola Law School. He was wrong.
After seven years of practicing entertainment law and one moment of clarity, Adam left his life as an attorney to follow his passion of making films. After directing forty-five hours of network television, some of it sublime, some of it eminently unwatchable, Adam’s career plummeted due in large part to drug and alcohol addiction. On January 1, 2004, Adam entered 12-Step recovery hoping to achieve an attitude adjustment. This was a New Year’s resolution he knew he had to keep. For 8 years, he taught writing, directing and acting at the New York Film Academy and taught filmmaking at Beit T’Shuvah, an addiction treatment center where the residents kept him on the straight and narrow.
Book: The Most Human: Reconciling with My Father, Leonard Nimoy
"Engaging and immensely relatable, while at the same time offering deeply profound insights into Adam Nimoy's personal relationships, particularly with his famous father." — Eugene Roddenberry Jr., CEO Roddenberry Entertainment
Living with Dad was like living with a stranger— as a kid I often had trouble connecting and relating to him. But I was always proud of him. Even before Star Trek I'd see him popping up in bit roles on some of my favorite TV shows like Get Smart, Sea Hunt, and The Man From U.N.C.L.E. And then one night he brought home Polaroids of himself in makeup and wardrobe for a pilot he was working on.
It was December 1964 and nobody had heard of Star Trek. Still, the eight-year-old me had watched enough Outer Limits and My Favorite Martian to understand exactly what I was looking at. Spock's popularity happened quickly, and soon the fan magazines were writing about dad's personal life, characterizing us as a "close family." But the awkwardness that defined our early relationship blossomed into conflict, sometimes smoldering, sometimes open and intense. There were occasional flashes of warmth between the arguments and hurt feelings— even something akin to love— especially when we were celebrating my father's many successes. The rest of the time, things between us were often strained.
My resentment towards my father kept building through the years. I wasn't blameless, I know that now, but my bitterness blinded me to any thought of my own contribution to the problem. I wanted things to be different for my children. I wanted to be the father I never had, so I coached Maddy's soccer, drove Jonah to music lessons, helped them with their homework— all the things dads are supposed to do. All the things I wanted to do. So what if my Dad and I had been estranged for years? I was living one day at a time. And then I got his letter. That marked a turning point in our lives, a moment that cleared the way for a new relationship between us.
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Episode 374 - Analee Vinyard - Helping women, and children find healing and freedom
My Message is HIS Message
Analee’s story is one of faith’s triumph over tragedy, the sufficiency of God’s grace and strength in our weakness, and the discovery of the overwhelmingly tender love of our God. When Jesus, the Author, and Finisher of our faith enters in, tragedy, grief, and brokenness will not have the last word.
Today, remarried and enjoying a happy and stable marriage and home, Analee embraces the legacy of her mother Alma, following in her footsteps, ministering love, hope, and encouragement to others.
My goal is to help women, children, and anyone find healing and freedom. Ultimately, this is my heart's mission and my mother's legacy to carry forward. For years I have envisioned myself as a bridge for those who've been through similar heartaches and hardships. Today, I am able to combine my language and translation skills with my love for the Hispanic kitchen and food to minister to others. These activities can be therapeutic, helping others find freedom and healing from their past. As Jesus was often found sitting down and dining with those who were considered "the lost," and welcoming those who were considered "the least."
I've been able to partner with local charities and charitable organizations, bringing my love for baking and cooking to a widening audience, sharing my skills, but more importantly, sharing the love of God with people who desperately need HIS embrace and HIS LOVE.
At the close of one of our church’s services, I went forward for prayer. A friend of mine named Jungu, a real prayer warrior prayed over me.
“God is calling you to a charitable ministry,” she said. I wondered; What kind of a ministry might this be? A pastor on the prayer team immediately had a word for me.
“You know exactly what you are going to be doing,” he said. “God knows and you know. You are going to be leading, helping, and setting people free.”
Another time we prayed, Jungu prophesied over me: “God has a plan. You will have these charities—more than one—through which you will serve and help women and families and you will give them a word from the Lord.”
Like before, this all sounded wonderful. But how could this be?
It was on a Thursday night—September 3, 2015, to be exact—that Jungu prayed over my love life. “Analee has lost so much, Lord,” she began. “She’s had to go through so much. You know who she is! You love her! You’ve heard her cries! You know her heart!”
I knew all these things were true. Still, it overwhelmed my heart to hear my dear friend plead on my behalf. “Lord, I pray that you will not only give back to Analee all that she’s lost, but double! More, Lord! Give her more in a man, and in life, than she asks for or even imagines possible!”
In my heart, I was hopeful but hesitant. I don’t know about all this, Lord. Maybe you could just provide a man who … loves me?
One week later, I met Joel.
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Episode 373 - Christi Cossette - Jumpstart Your Journey, Putting Yourself First and Rules To Live By
The most important relationship is with yourself. Are you really putting yourself first?
Putting yourself first goes against what women are taught. We are natural nurturers focused on caring for those around us, often putting others’ needs before our own. We are told to shrink back, be small, don’t take up too much room. Don’t be too loud, too thin, too fat, too tall, too short, the list goes on. It seems its impossible to ever be good enough to meet society’s standards. Especially because it keeps changing.
If you spend your life bowing to the opinions, needs and desires of everyone else, you risk losing yourself in the process, never reaching your God given potential and perhaps worst of all, you don’t serve anyone in your life or family well, because you’re too exhausted and confused to do anything well.
You’re in the Right Place…
Grab My 20 rules to live by checklist!
This checklist of my 20 Rules to Live By, will help you figure out your big priorities, shifts you can make, setting better boundaries, be more successful and just LOVE your LIFE more! If you live by the majority of these rules, I believe you’ll be more successful and it’s just a great way to SHOW UP.
Book: Jumpstart Your ____, Vol VI includes 10 authors from all over the World who wrote chapters about the thing THEY help people JUMPSTART!
This is a great book for anyone who needs a jumpstart in any area of their life, health, relationships, business, prosperity and career.
What kind of jumpstart do you need?
Are you looking for support with any or many of the following?
- Your Business Growth / Client Attraction / Referrals
- Love Life / Emotional Support / Health & Wellness
- Your Message / Speaking / Customer Journey
- Becoming an Author / Sales & Closing Strategies
- Empowerment / Money Mindset / More Success
If so then you want to pick this book up and read it – it will help you!
The 10 authors in this book have experiences and knowledge that can help you jumpstart just about any area of your life, health, and business or career. If you find yourself a little stuck somewhere, this book will help you take that next step you need to take now to move closer to your goals.
Our hope is that by reading this book, you get a deeper dive on various topics that can help you right now, and even 5-10 years from now. The authors that have collaborated on this book are experts in their industry and with what they teach. If you enjoy any one or more stories and chapters within this book, reach out and contact the author. They want to know that their chapter encouraged you, inspired you, or motivated you in some way. They also want to know how they can help you. Each author has provided some kind of next step or free gift at the end of their chapter to give you that opportunity to learn more.
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Episode 371 - Gina DeMillo Wagner - Forces of Nature - A Memoir of Family, Loss and Finding Home
Gina DeMillo Wagner is an award-winning journalist and author. Her writing has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Memoir Magazine, Modern Loss, Self, Outside, CRAFT Literary, and other publications. She is a winner of the CRAFT Creative Nonfiction Award, and her memoir was longlisted for the 2022 SFWP Literary prize. Gina has a master’s degree in journalism and is cofounder of Watershed creative writing and art workshops. She lives and works near Boulder, Colorado.
Book: Forces of Nature: A Memoir of Family, Loss and Finding HomeGina DeMillo Wagner’s brother Alan had a rare genetic disorder that caused him to veer from loving to violent. When Alan died suddenly, Gina was pulled away from the safety of her adult life and thrust back into a family she has been estranged from for nearly ten years. FORCES OF NATURE follows this rewinding of the past, Gina’s caregiving journey and reckoning with complicated grief, plus Alan’s Christmas-themed funeral, and an investigation into his cause of death. It’s a personal story that asks universal questions: How much of ourselves should we sacrifice to those we love? And, what forces shape our sense of family and home?
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Episode 370 - Mandi Dickey - From Care Giving to In Need of Care - How a Tramatic Brain Injury Refocuses Your Life
Imagine, being in the operating room during brain surgery, being at the top of your career helping others with brain wellness only to be invloved in a car accident that turns a care giver into a recpient of needing care. Imagine hearing your own presentations, reading your own words and everything sounds like a foreign language - nothing makes sense and the knowlege that you have built up over years of education and service in the medial field is wiped from your memory and vocabulary. Dark days indeed. How do you come back from the edge of despair? Mandi joins us to talk about her upcoming book - Welcome Back, we are glad you are here for this great conversation - please share this with anyone that has suffered a traumatic brain injury or those that care for someone that has!
MY MISSION
I educate healthcare workers and the general public about neurological conditions and how to experience life more fully if you experience neurological difficulties
MY EXPERIENCE
I have helped countless patients in my role as Nurse Practitioner in Neurology over the last 11+ years. I am certified in neuroscience care, have given lectures at local and state conferences, and am passionate about helping others live their best lives.
Even more, I have experienced healthcare from the patient's perspective, having migraines since my teens, and currently still recovering from a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). I live life on both sides of the stethoscope.
HOW CAN I HELP YOU?
Grab a copy of my book (link below) to help yourself or someone you know who suffers from migraines.
Need a podcast guest or presentation? I can speak about tips for reduction of migraines or decreasing stroke risk, as well as what it's like to be a provider receiving TBI care, the recovery process or the pitfalls in the health system that I've identified, and the importance of a strong support system to help you get through some of the toughest diagnoses.
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Episode 369 - Joan Leegant - Displaced Persons, Israel and the power of storiesJoan Leegant's story collection, DISPLACED PERSONS: STORIES, winner of the New American Fiction Prize, will be out in June 2024.
Her earlier books won the PEN/New England Book Award, the Wallant Award for Jewish Fiction, and finalist citation for the National Jewish Book Award and selection as a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick.
From 2007 to 2013, Joan was the visiting writer at Bar-Ilan University outside Tel Aviv where she also gave talks on American literature and culture under the auspices of the U.S. Embassy and was a volunteer ESL teacher for African refugees and asylum seekers, experiences that made their way into her fiction. She lives in Newton, Massachusetts.
Book: DISPLACED PERSONS: STORIES
***Coming June 2024 from New American Press
Winner of the New American Fiction Prize***
Set half in Israel and half in the States, the stories in this prize-winning collection explore the experience of exile, belonging, and what it means to call a place home. A visiting professor from Boston forms an unlikely bond with an Israeli born in Iraq. Two teenage tourists are startled out of their naiveté in a restaurant in Jerusalem’s Old City. A gifted yeshiva student spiraling into mental illness takes refuge in the poetry of Walt Whitman. An aged widower returns after sixty years to the Bronx neighborhood of his youth to make amends with a first love he abandoned to go to prison. Shimmering with insight and compassion, DISPLACED PERSONS is a profound, exquisite collection that illuminates pivotal moments of transition, longing, and hope.
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EPISODE 368 - Milton Sithole - Dominate Your Potential - Break Free from Self-Defeating Thinking
"Dominate Your Potential: Break Free from Self-Defeating Thinking."
Unpacking how we communicate, empathize, and behave unveiling biases, assumptions, and vulnerabilities.
This self-awareness elevates communication and empathy, crucial for establishing healthier professional relationships. Introspection fuels self-awareness, enhances decision-making, and catalyzes personal growth.
It's a journey—be patient, integrate self-reflection into your routine, and foster professional and personal development.
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EPISODE 367 - Michael Gross - Spillage is a wickedly fun throwback to a chaotic time in New York
It’s 1976, and the Big Apple is in sorry shape. Besieged on all sides, the city has become a graffiti-coated, garbage-filled, crime-ridden cauldron, teetering on the edge of total collapse. Adding to New York’s towering woes, a revolutionary group called the Satanic Vanguard has kidnapped the mayor, set fire to Coney Island, and threatened further mayhem. All that Gotham has to hope for are its resurgent Yankees, who’ve come back from the dead to reach the World Series by riding the arm of their quirky rookie phenom Nick “The Swan” Spillage. But Satan and his Vanguard plan to snuff that hope out too, they’ve targeted a young couple to help with their diabolical scheme.
The rock and roll-loving pair—Joan and Eliot—came of age in the late 1960s when the counterculture peaked. They’ve lived together in New York’s East Village for eight years, making sweet music on the subways while their beloved city crumbled around them. Then, in shades of the Faustian musical Damn Yankees, Joan develops an obsession with The Swan and makes a deal with the Devil to capture his heart. Meanwhile, Eliot wrestles with what it means to preserve his own soul as he makes a valiant effort to win her back and save the day.
Spillage is a wickedly fun throwback to a chaotic time. At its heart, the novel is a love story and a search for identity in a world that’s gone off the rails.
Michael Gross began Spillage in 1976, the year the story takes place, while working as managing editor of Fiction magazine, teaching and earning his MfA at New York’s City College. He also has a BA from Trinity College and an MBA from NYU, and was the recipient of a Thomas J. Watson Fellowship. In 1978, he embarked on a forty-five-year career in crisis communications, culminating in his serving as CEO of Finsbury (now FGS Global). He is married, has three children and three grandchildren, and divides his time between Brooklyn and Fire Island.
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Episode 366 - Tamzin Hall - Co-Author of The Power of Coaching - Nurturing Leadership and Personal Development
Coaching is a leadership and personal development buzzword : but what is it? and how does it help people?
In this book you'll hear from 10 qualified coaches who share their experience and case studies demonstrating the impact of coaching personally and professionally.
Simply put you'll recognise how impactful coaching can be as an intervention.
If you've been considering using a coaching approach in your professional life, getting a coach or training as a coach (or you're already in the field) you'll find inspiration and real world examples.
The chapters traverse coaching in a range of environments with both individuals and teams, different approaches and the huge impact that coaching can have on underrepresented groups supporting the creation of a more equitable society.
The book is a collaboration with 10 strong voices who all bring their own experience and expertise to life.
The authors are:
James Eder
Metra Rowe
Tamzin Hall
Anna Badcock
Helen Schoeb
Adam Ceney
Dr Adnan Ali
Kasey L. Petrowski
Dr Mary Phillips (DC)
Dr Morten Isnes (DC)
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**Episode 365 - Elisa Di Napoli - Dare To Be Seen - Stop Stage Fright and Perform with Confidence
Do you shrink under the spotlight? Discover a powerful method to banish nerves and help you stand out from the crowd.**
Does public speaking terrify you? Are business presentations enough to make your knees knock? Is fear crippling your performance? As a clinical hypnotherapist and singer-songwriter for twenty years, Elisa Di Napoli has played in front of thousands and knows what it is like to suffer at the center of attention. Now she’s here to share two decades of experience helping people like you express themselves with conviction.
Dare to Be Seen: From Stage Fright to Stage Presence - Command the Stage and Magnify your Presence is a complete manual for turning your paralysis into poise. Using coaching exercises, hypnotic techniques, and inspiring examples, Di Napoli’s comprehensive approach takes you by the hand every step of the way. Whether your job requires presenting to colleagues or if you’re a creative artist battling immobilizing stress, you’ll soon become adept at dealing with the limelight.
In Dare to Be Seen, you’ll discover:
- The ten key elements of turning paralysis into unstoppable assertion
- Six fundamental mind hacks to become self-assured
- A uniquely designed, professional approach to lock in the new confident you
- Step-by-step sessions to build up your showmanship mindset
- How to overcome the fear of rejection, quiet the negative voices, let go of performance anxiety and stage fright and much, much more!
Dare to Be Seen is your groundbreaking resource to go from camera-shy to shining light. If you like expert advice about how to defeat anxiety, jargon-free solutions on how to improve your speaking skills, and practical tactics on how to be authentically confident, then you’ll love Elisa Di Napoli’s life-changing strategies.
- Turn your Performance Anxiety into Authentic Power in Ten Easy Steps: Use Transformational Hypnotherapy to overcome your fear and boost your confidence
- Make Stage Presence a Reality: Quiet the negative voices in your head that prevent you from standing out. Share your message in a larger way
About the author
Elisa Di Napoli has been a full time integrative clinical hypnotherapist and life coach since 2001, her practice expanding across New Zealand and Scotland. She is an accomplished singer-songwriter with 20 years of performance experience and eleven albums under her belt. Her background includes philosophy, art, comparative religion, music performance, and acting.
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Episode 364 - Michelle Glogovac - How To Get on Podcasts, What you know and what you are known for
Book: How to Get On Podcasts: Cultivate Your Following, Strengthen Your Message, and Grow as a Thought Leader Through Podcast Guesting
The explosion of social media, AI-enabled online advertising, and the overall cacophony of the internet has made it harder than ever to connect a message with an audience. One of the most powerful emerging tools for cutting through that noise is being a guest on podcasts, or "podcast guesting."
Michelle Glogovac, AKA The Podcast Matchmaker, knows the impact podcast guesting has on business and brand growth. She helps entrepreneurs, nonprofit leaders, activists, experts, and authors promote themselves, their businesses, organizations, stories, and expertise via podcast interviews. In How to Get on Podcasts, she teaches you how to create unique speaking topics without being generic; define your ideal audience; design branded media kits; establish your expertise and knowledge; share yourself freely without resorting to sales tactics; tell compelling stories; repurpose your interviews into evergreen marketing content; and turn every interview into a valuable business opportunity.
There are more than two-million podcasts, out of which 500,000 host expert guests—a huge opportunity for leveraging a free and robust marketing tool—if you have the know-how. With How to Get on Podcasts, you have everything you need to increase business, boost your career and brand, and elevate your thought leadership potential.
This audiobook includes a bonus chapter written by the author exclusively for this edition.
The Podcast - My Simplified Life with Michelle Glogovac
About the podcast
Are you letting your past define your future? Are you feeling stuck in the present and worrying about how you can make a switch in your life? Do you want to pivot in your career or launch a new business? The My Simplified Life Podcast is tackling all of these questions and more! Each episode is filled with life lessons, stories and experiences filled with humor, reality, and inspiring takeaways. We are covering career switches, motherhood, work life balance, starting your own business and what it means to simply be a good human being. Michelle Glogovac is a former corporate aviation executive who made a career switch and is now the CEO and Founder of The MLG Collective, a Podcast PR Agency and award-winning author of HOW TO GET ON PODCASTS (2024, McGraw Hill).
Known as THE Podcast Matchmaker, Michelle specializes in working with entrepreneurs, authors & experts to be podcast guests and expand their stories. Grab your coffee or even better, your wine, and get ready to be inspired to start changing your future while getting all of the tips and tools to make it happen!
To learn more about Michelle, visit https://michelleglogovac.com or to learn more about The MLG Collective, visit https://themlgcollective.com.
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EPISODE 363 - Richard Sparks - Rowan Atkinson, Operas and a New Rock, New Role - Words Matter
Richard Sparks
One morning in 1979 I got a call from an understandably excited Rowan Atkinson.
“John Cleese just called. He’s asked me to be in his new charity show – and can I do The Schoolmaster?”
Er, yes.
I’d written The Schoolmaster for Rowan the previous year, for a revue at the Hampstead Theatre (Rowan with Elspeth Walker and Peter Wilson). John and his co-producer, Martin Lewis, had seen it; and a year later, Rowan and I were backstage at Her Majesty’s Theatre, meeting John and other members of the cast of The Secret Policeman’s Ball.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiWJWLCoH2M
Rowan went on stage an unknown, with his gown and clipboard and pen, and came off a star. The Schoolmaster became his signature piece, the encore of his live shows. Eventually, he got tired of doing the same old routine and wrote another (ruder) version, generously giving me half the royalties.
By that time, I’d cut my teeth on various TV shows, from HTV (Wales) to ITV (Southern and Central) to the BBC. I’d also written some stage shows (reviews, original plays, and adaptations of Goldoni comedies), and done a lot of freelance script editing. In 1992, I was hired by Columbia Picture Television to work with Blake Hunter and Marty Cohan, the creators of Who’s the Boss?. My wife and I moved with our young daughter to her parents (converted) garage and we’ve lived in Los Angeles since.
I’ve written a number of libretti for operas, almost all for the LA Opera – some original pieces, some translations from German or Italian. My writing partner, the composer, Lee Holdridge, was – in a way – once G.R.R. Martin’s ‘writing partner’ in that he composed the scores for the TV series Beauty and the Beast, for which Martin was a script writer.
I’d been a hard-core RPG gamer for years when the idea for these books just fell out of the sky one morning, and I started writing. I have hardly had a moment to log on to any game — I’m too busy exploring the New Rock stories as they unfold.
My publisher, Caezik SF & Fantasy, is a company of enthusiasts who love these genres. I am delighted to join their family of authors, and to be working with their executive editor, Lezli, Robyn.
Three sequels – New Rock New Realm, New Rock New Rules, and New Rock New Roads, have been completed and will be published in due course. I’m currently working on the fifth book.
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Episode 362 - Gerald Everett Jones - mystery-thrillers and literary fiction for adult readers who seek insight, fascination, and delight in the adventures of their own lives
Gerald Everett Jones lives in Santa Monica. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild and Women’s National Book Association, as well as a board member of the Independent Writers of Southern California (IWOSC). He is a Film Independent (FILM) Fellow. He holds a Bachelor of Arts with Honors from the College of Letters, Wesleyan University, where he studied under novelists Peter Boynton (Stone Island), F.D. Reeve (The Red Machines), and Jerzy Kosinski (The Painted Bird, Being There).”
I write mystery-thrillers and literary fiction for adult readers who seek insight, fascination, and delight in the adventures of their own lives.
I’ve been a professional writer all my working life. I host GetPublished! Radio and I’ve been a regular book reviewer on KRLA-AM in Los Angeles. My book reviews have been syndicated by Splash Magazines Worldwide (splashmagazines.com), and I’m a top reviewer at Goodreads.com.
I studied screenwriting with John Truby and Lew Hunter (UCLA), and my screenplay Christmas Karma was honored by the WGAW Diversity Program in 2016.
In 2020 I won six book awards, and then another six in 2021, in categories Mystery and Literary Fiction, and one in Business.
The third novel in my Evan Wycliff series will be Preacher Raises the Dead, which will deal with issues of euthanasia and near-death experience.
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Episode 361 - Risa August - The Road Unpaved - Border to Border with a Brain Tumor and a Bike
A Life Without Limits...
Following a life-altering diagnosis, I have made it my mission to draw attention to rare Pituitary diseases by sharing my own personal journey. Little did I know, this diagnosis would teach me to live. Along with my mission, I continue to explore ways of experiencing life more fully by challenging my limiting beliefs and refocusing my perspective. This has further led me to guide others through their own limiting beliefs and toward their biggest and best life.
After a shocking diagnosis for a rare pituitary disease and with her eighteen-year marriage in shambles, Risa’s life has fallen far from picture-perfect. Recovering from brain surgery and desperate to get back to her former self, she signs up for the bike tour of a lifetime—six weeks from Canada to Mexico on the Pacific Coast Highway.
The old Risa could have done the ride in her sleep, but for the new Risa, trapped in a body that no longer feels like her own and stuck in the company of her brain tumor, Bubba, the ride becomes a challenge unlike anything she’s ever faced.
As Risa pedals through rain, pain, and the ghosts of her memories, she wonders if the woman she once was will ever return or whether the new woman rising up in her place might just be the person she was meant to be all along.
A remarkable story of transformation and resilience, The Road Unpaved speaks to shifting gears to navigate life’s roadblocks and live a life without limits—a life fully unleashed.
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Episode 360 - Bob Young - True Golf - the story of Moe Norman and a new song with Bob's brother Neil YoungOur Guest - Bob Young was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1942. He was a member of the Canadian Professional Golfers’ Association for nearly three decades and first met Moe Norman in the early 1960s.
Like Norman, Young has always been intrigued by metaphysics and has had access to the leading trance mediums.
Young’s brother is Neil Young, the internationally recognized singer-songwriter.
Book: Mind Golf: The Troubled Genius of Moe Norman - At one of a series of clinics that former USPGA teacher of the year Craig Shankland staged, he asked Moe Norman in front of about 300 people, “What’s it like to hit perfect shots, Moe?” Moe paused and looked at the audience. Then, in jest, said, “You will never know.”Mind Golf assembles and ignites the mental energy of the image of the shot-to-be. Moe “Pipeline Moe” Norman was a Canadian professional golfer and the best ball-striker the world has ever known. Author Bob Young met the eccentric golfer and traveled between Canada and Florida from the early 1960s to 2004, where he was able to observe Pipeline Moe for decades. Mind Golf is about life and golf and the metaphysical connection between Norman’s mechanics and Young’s perception of the mental construct of ball striking. The core of Mind Golf recounts the trail to Young’s discovery, which will help you discover it too.____
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Episode 359 - Michelle Mintz - All Done Binky, Pacifiers and their impact on proper speech and language skills
Book: All Done Binky - It is important for a child to stop using their pacifier at a very young age in order to help develop proper speech and language skills. Parents have reported an increase in verbal language when their child completely stopped using their pacifier. This book helps parents and children learn how to wean off the pacifier. The story shows the steps involved beginning with removing it from outside the house, then not using inside the house during activities and finally eliminating it from the bed. The bright colors and simple words are exciting and relatable to young children who will want you to read it to them over and over again!
The Author: Everyone has a special gift. You may know what yours is or perhaps you have not yet discovered it. I am fortunate to know that my special gift is having the key that is needed to help children unlock the doors of communication. I have this wonderful ability to relate to children in such a way that they feel comfortable and have fun at the same time that they are blooming.
For over 25 years, my passion has been connecting and communicating with parents, grandparents, nannies, siblings and their babies from birth through five years old. Guiding both the children and adults during my sessions provides me with great joy and pride. To be present for the beautiful moment when a mom hears her child speak a word they have never spoken before is an inspiring and exhilarating shared experience.
Watching the looks of pure awe and joy from the families when they see their baby making those connections is what continues to drive my passion for helping other babies bloom.
As babies bloom…families blossom.
Through my years of experience, I have discovered that coaching those who spend the most time with a baby such as parents, grandparents, and nannies to integrate my proactive strategies into their natural daily activities is the most impactful way to help a baby bloom.
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EPISODE 358 - Amy Thurman - Finding My Hero Within - Time to Polish The Mirror
Inside all of us is a hero. Even when we don’t think one exists for us.
Being able to tell that hero’s story is what can not only be inspirational for others but it can actually serve to help someone else not give up.
Amy Thurman is a story development coach, and refers to herself as a ‘disabled entrepreneur advocate’ and lives with a broken neck. Yet, in spite of the massive challenges she has faced and continues to face, she has made it her mission to help other entrepreneurs tell their story in stages using emotions.
In this episode, Amy shares her amazing story, how she chooses to view herself, and how she helps others tell their story in an experience.
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Amy’s site: https://www.getamyshelp.com/
FB: https://www.facebook.com/amy.thurman1
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amythurman/
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Episode 357 - Karen Gershowitz - Tourist vs Traveller - 95 Countries Visited and How to See The World
About Karen GershowitzI was 17 years old, traveling alone, when I boarded a plane to Europe. Living in a different culture I experienced the world in new and surprising ways and discovered myself. My love of travel was born. I didn’t return to the US for three years.
Since then I’ve traveled to more than 90 countries. I climbed Kilimanjaro, conquered my fear of falling to go on an elephant trek in Thailand, spent time in Berlin shortly after the wall came down, stayed with a Japanese family who taught me to make sushi and made friends across the globe.
In pursuit of my passion for travel I’ve lost and gained friends and lovers and made a radical career change. Travel is my addiction, and I don’t want treatment
I studied ceramics in college and graduate school but abandoned that career and switched to marketing so that employers would pay for my travel. In my new career as a marketing strategist and researcher I’ve traveled the world conducting thousands of meetings, focus groups and interviews. My skills as an interviewer have persuaded total strangers to talk candidly about the most intimate of subjects, personal bankruptcy, illness, and religion. When traveling for pleasure, those same skills helped me to draw out people’s stories. I’ve learned about their lives, as well as local customs and fashions and what makes them laugh. These conversations often led to invitations for dinner and personal tours.
Travel Mania is a compilation of stories that explore how travel can change a life. Like my readers, I am an ordinary person. Through travel I’ve learned courage and risk taking and succeeded at things I didn’t know I could do.
Each story can be read and enjoyed independently. My hope is that they will tickle the travel bug in readers and encourage them to set off on their own adventures.
I live in New York City.
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Episode 356 - Debra Atlas - You Aren't Depression's Victim - Powerful Questions to Ask Yourself
You Aren't Depression's Victim, a departure from Debra Atlas's usual journalistic writing, is designed to be uplifting and empowering. It offers readers thought-provoking ideas and possibilities.
Have you ever wondered if you had a choice when faced with depression? We often think we must automatically fall into the depression pit, that there's no other option. But what if you could see and recognize depression before it hit? What if we didn't have to fall down into that dark pit but could see it coming and do something to step back from it?
This intimate look into Ms. Atlas's lifelong journey with depression:
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reveals how to identify where the edge of depression actually is,
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provides tools to help you recognize depression before it hits,
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shines a light on simple actions that can help us step back from the edge.
Living an "odd man out", roller coaster-like life, Atlas kept her depression hidden from family and friends – until she attempted suicide at age 14. From her emotional recovery to life at college, grad school and on to the Big Apple, Atlas strove to find meaning and balance while lacking the words or skills for her search. Living with a deep sense of inadequacy, her "I'm not good enough" constantly put a lid on her ability to be a star in her life.
A chance meeting with a therapist became a lifeline when Atlas faced an overwhelming emotional crisis. The therapy that followed opened the door to life-changing insights and to desperately needed tools that helped her gain clarity, confidence and equilibrium. This book is the culmination of that work. Through her hard work and the lessons learned from it, Atlas discovered that we have a choice, that we don't have to be a victim of depression, and this unlocked a bright path to living a balanced and fulfilled life.
About the Author
Debra Atlas has been a newspaper columnist, freelance environmental journalist, radio personality, a professional speaker, a professional blogger and a green business practice consultant. A member of the Society of Environmental Journalists, her articles have covered topics as wide ranging as climate change, environmental conservation, sustainability, GMO-related issues, green innovation and agricultural themes.
A member of the Sierra Club since early 2000, Debra is also involved with animal rights and animal welfare and has supported numerous animal rescue organizations both in the U.S. and internationally. Aware of the line a journalist must walk, she is passionate about supporting animal rights and having those rights recognized at every level.
Born and raised in South Texas, Debra has lived and worked on both the East and West Coast, An outside-the-box thinker with a wide range of interests, she believes that finding daily inspiration is crucial to living a balanced, happy and fulfilled life.
Website: www.debraatlas.com
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Episode 355 - Sara Bohling - When Grit and Grace Collide - Persevering Through Life’s Challenges With Grit and God’s Grace
Prematurity. Perseverance. Invisible Illness. Faith.
See how these elements collide in an inspiring true life story. Nurse turned patient; fighting rare and invisible illness. It is filled with determination, love, community and hope.
Come along on the journey, to witness the power of God and finding joy amidst challenging circumstances.
The author is a wife, mom and nurse with 20 years experience. She bravely shares some of her life's challenging moments- providing vulnerability, honesty and encouragement to her readers about what life is like when the road isn't always easy. From weighing 2 pounds at birth, to later being shunned by medical providers who were unwilling to take a deeper look into her invisible illness. Her raw relationship with God during this time and finding hope & joy in unexpected places. This is a journey you surely don't want to miss!
Sara Bohling
Author/Nurse/Wife/Mom
I’m a wife, Mom to 2 daughters and a sunset enthusiast. I’m Nurse with 20 years experience- Neonatal bedside nurse, APRN-CNS, and am now providing holistic wellness coaching.
I’ve endured a significant health challenge the past several years, with a rare, invisible illness that left me completely bedbound for nearly a year. I’ve spent the next 5 years relearning to walk, drive and more. It has transformed my view and approach to helping and healing others.
I have shared my journey of faith, health and grace in my book: When Grit and Grace Collide: Persevering Through Life’s Challenges with Grit and God’s Grace.
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Episode 354 - Daniel Voigt Godoy - You're Not Your Job - Going Above and Beyond for Yourself
You're Not Your JobLeaving the rat race by overcoming self-doubt
Do you feel like a square peg in a round hole sometimes?
Do you feel like what you're doing is not really meant for you?
Would you rather be doing something else entirely but don't know where to start?
In our lives, we don't ask ourselves enough questions. We follow the lead of others because they seem to know what they're doing. Along the way, you may lose track of who you really are. You mistake your identity for your job. Deep down, however, you know you were not meant to be living like this. You even have a plan to switch gears. But you never do.
Looking for answers? Try asking questions instead!
Daniel has been through the journey of switching careers. He's not offering you answers, though.
His goal is to help you ask yourself LOTS and LOTS of questions to get where you want to be. This helpful book is what he wishes his past self had at his disposal.
About the author
Daniel is a data scientist, developer, writer, and teacher. He has been teaching machine learning and distributed computing technologies at Data Science Retreat, the longest-running Berlin-based bootcamp, since 2016, helping more than 150 students advance their careers.
Daniel is also the main contributor of two Python packages: HandySpark and DeepReplay.
His professional background includes 20 years of experience working for companies in several industries: banking, government, fintech, retail, and mobility.
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EPISODE 353 - Joel Salomon - The 9 Money Rules Millionaire’s Use and His TedX Talk
JOEL SALOMON
Joel Salomon is a prosperity coach who helps others overcome obstacles standing in the way of their financial freedom. In 2019, Joel published The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use: Only The Unconventional Oneswhich was a bestseller in both self-help and personal finance. In 2018, he published Mindful Money Management: Memoirs of a Hedge Fund Manager, which immediately became a bestseller.
Joel is an award-winning speaker and frequent podcast guest. He has led 9 workshops teaching the concepts of how to overcome limiting beliefs. He has spoken at numerous Rotary and Lions’ Clubs in the New York Metropolitan area and at Mercy College’s MBA program, as well as at Mike Dooley’s Infinite Possibilities Training Conference in New Orleans in March 2018.
He appeared on TV with CEO Money and has also been a guest on more than 20 podcasts including Every Day is a New Day Show, Thrive Loud, the Award-Winning Nice GuysPodcast, The Financial Survival Network, and Think, Believe, Manifest. Joel has also been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, Newsday, U.S. News and World Report, and interviewed in Forbes and on Bloomberg Radio.
In 2012, he achieved a decades-long dream with the launch of his own hedge fund, SaLaurMor Capital (named after his two daughters, Lauren and Morgan).
Salomon’s financial experience includes managing a $700 million long/short equity and credit portfolio for Citi. Salomon generated positive returns every full year during his time at Citi, including 2008, when the market suffered 40 percent losses and financial stocks—the only ones he was managing—collapsed 57%.
Salomon has been a Chartered Financial Analyst since 1995. In 1992, he was named a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. He is also an Advanced Communicator Gold Toastmaster and a Certified Infinite Possibilities Trainer & Trailblazer.
When not helping others achieve their financial dreams, Salomon enjoys table tennis, bowling, and skiing. He is also an avid traveler and has visited over forty countries and five continents.
The Book: The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use
The 9 Money Rules Millionaires Use is fabulous, enlightened reading, filled with gripping personal stories – my favorite way to learn – written by someone who has walked the talk and who wants to help others do the same. I could not more highly recommend reading this one as soon as possible.
Mike Dooley NY Timesbestselling author of Infinite Possibilities
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Episode 352 - Tammy J Cohen - Text Messages to My Sons - You Are Bulletproof
Tammy Cohen has been partnering with top-tier corporate executives and entrepreneurs to develop their personal and professional brands for more than 20 years.
Today, she understands her role as a connector and sees opportunities for women to thrive and grow exponentially, which is why she founded the Women Beyond the Table, a business network with a soul.
Tammy added podcaster by launching the Beyond the Table Podcast, leveraging her ability to connect with audiences by sharing her guest’s stories and wisdom.
In her consulting work, Tammy connects her clients to their mission, vision and core values statements and utilizes her networks to develop brands. Tammy is a frequent podcast guest and speaker on topics ranging from branding to leadership.
When she is not helping brands stand out or women to thrive, Tammy lives in Manhattan with her husband and 3 sons and owns Eighteen Restaurant on the Upper Eastside. Text Messages to My Sons is Tammy’s first book where she connects deeply with her family in a world of devices. It is a must read for anyone looking to build a deeper connection.
Tammy J Cohen
Contact: tammy@tcbrandconsulting.com
@textmessagestomysons
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The Book: Text Messages To My Sons - At the start of 2020, I began to immerse myself in a learning journey incorporating good health, spiritual and emotional intelligence, and personal growth. I needed to share this with my three sons, who are everything to me.
One motivating factor was the wild statistic that in 2017, people were on their phones 70% of the time, and by 2021, it was continuous.
While my kids were growing up, I texted my sons mostly with nagging reminders, questions, commands, and sometimes, even reprimands. They would text me what they needed or wanted me to do for them. That was our communication. I do not consider phones and devices evil; what you do with them makes the difference.
So, at the beginning of 2021, I started text messaging each of my sons daily with messages of love, inspiration, observation, and gratitude. I shared what I was learning, including advice and quotes from renowned mentors, creators, and thinkers. What was fantastic was that my sons read the texts and responded with love and acknowledgment back to me.
As I shared with friends what I was doing with my sons, their response was remarkably consistent: “THIS IS AMAZING, YOU HAVE TO PUT THIS IN A BOOK, WHAT A GIFT!” And so, I did ! “Text Messages to My Sons” is available on Amazon. It’s there as a gentle guide to expand the depth of your loving relationships with family and friends.
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**Episode 351 - Cliff Garstang - Writing on Location, Writing From A Point of View, Celebrating Your Book Launch
About the Author**
Clifford Garstang is the author of five works of fiction including the novels Oliver’s Travels and The Shaman of Turtle Valley and the short story collections House of the Ancients and Other Stories, What the Zhang Boys Know, and In an Uncharted Country. He is also the editor of the acclaimed anthology series, Everywhere Stories: Short Fiction from a Small Planet. A former international lawyer, he lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
The Last Bird of ParadisePublication Date: February 22, 2024
Available for Pre-order from Black Rose Writing, Amazon.com, Bookshop.org, Barnes & Noble, and your favorite independent bookstore.
The Last Bird of Paradise by Clifford Garstang
Two women, nearly a century apart, seek to rebuild their lives when they reluctantly leave their homelands. Arriving in Singapore, they find romance in a tropical paradise, but also find they haven’t left behind the dangers that caused them to flee.
In the aftermath of 9/11 and haunted by the specter of terrorism, Aislinn Givens leaves her New York law practice and joins her husband in Southeast Asia when he takes a job there. Seeking to establish herself in a local law firm, Aislinn begins to understand the historic resentment of foreigners who have exploited the region for centuries. Learning about the turmoil of Singapore’s colonial period, she acquires several paintings by an English artist during World War I that she believes are a warning to her. The artist, Elizabeth Pennington, tells her own tumultuous story through diary entries that come to an end when the war reaches the colony with catastrophic results. In the present, Aislinn and her husband learn tragically that terrorism takes many shapes when they are ensnared by local political upheaval and corruption.
In a lyrical blend of historical and contemporary drama, The Last Bird of Paradise explores the consequences of power imbalances—both domestic and geopolitical—against a lush, tropical backdrop. Clifford Garstang, author of the award-winning novel Oliver’s Travels, once again draws on his decades of experience in Asia to tell an unforgettable story of romantic intrigue.
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Episode 350 - Leah M Forney - The Power of the Pen, Community and Memoirs
Leah M. Forney is a native of Queens, New York who is currently residing in Maryland. She learned early on the importance of having a relationship with Jesus Christ from her maternal grandmother who raised her in the church. She is a Sexual Assault Thriver and Advocate. She is a well sought after professional speaker. She has lend her voice and story to numerous projects over the last 5 years in business.
She has released nine books over the last 6 years. She is the podcast host of the Internationally Recognized, Hey Queen, Thrive!
She is an award winner of I am H.E.R. International Awards Woman on the Rise. She has been nominated for 13 industry awards such as ACHI, InspireU, & Sweat pants & Chill Retreat. She has been blessed to be featured on over 200 different media publications including but not limited to internationally streamed Born Unbreakable podcast. She has been blessed to land 2 partnerships with state and national organizations to lend her voice in the fight to end sexual violence.
For the last decade, She has trained and spoken to law enforcement, attorney general's victim advocates, and countless other organizations and schools on the importance of addressing sexual assault effectively.
You can follow Leah on many social media sites.
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Episode 349 - Kerry Kriseman - Accidental First Lady - On the Front Lines (and Behind the Scenes) of Local Politics
Hello, and thank you for visiting. I’m a St. Petersburg native, and a graduate of University of South Florida (Go Bulls!) with a B.A. in Mass Communications/Broadcasting. I’m also a former political spouse.
After years of being asked, “How do you do this?” I decided to tell my story of political spouse life with Accidental First Lady: On the Front Lines (and Behind the Scenes) of Local Politics.
Since publishing my book, I’ve had the honor of helping others start their author journeys. I’ve taught memoir writing with Keep St. Pete Lit, and next year, I’ll teach a 4-part memoir class at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Eckerd College.
To reach aspiring writers everywhere, I’m designing an online class: Memoir Magic: Crafting, Publishing, and Promoting Your Life Story. I’d love to add you to my Founders Group of students.
About the author
Kerry Kriseman is a St. Petersburg native. She is a graduate of the University of South Florida with a B.A. in Mass Communications/Broadcasting.
Kerry worked in print media for the St. Petersburg Times (now Tampa Bay Times) in various positions in the Newsroom and Marketing Department from 1988 to 1998. She has been the Public Relations Manager for Creative Clay, a St. Petersburg, Fla., non-profit since 2008.
Kerry is the author of Accidental First Lady: On the Front Lines and Behind the Scenes of Local Politics, published by St. Petersburg Press. The memoir recounts her 22 years as a political spouse to her lawyer-turned-politician husband, Rick Kriseman, St. Petersburg Mayor from 2014-2022. Political life afforded Kerry remarkable travel experiences, such as travel to Morocco, Scotland, and Qatar. However, she also finds her hometown of St. Pete engaging, with its world-class museums, local arts districts, diversity, and vibrant neighborhoods.
Equally as enjoyable as travel are Kerry’s passions: dogs (her own Labradors and the guide dog puppies they raise), volunteering in several capacities, enjoying wine, trying new recipes, and challenging her baking skills with her new Kitchen Aid stand mixer.
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Episode 348 - Dwight Dale Miller - Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Heart - Writing in Flow State
About Dwight
Dwight Dale Miller, known as The SoulHacker, is dedicated to helping individuals overcome all obstacles, awaken, heal, and thrive while living their best lives. His transformative journey as a renowned healing guide, life coach, author, and numerologist began with a powerful commitment to making a positive impact. New inspirations were given to him when he surrendered his life to being of service. After working with Dwight, the way you see and live your life is completely transformed as your awareness, vibration, and personal power have skyrocketed.
Dwight's own challenges, including his father's cancer battle, failed marriages, facing his newborn son being far away from him, being whipped as a child, and a life-changing car accident, fueled his passion for healing and serving others. Dwight Dale Miller has written many self-help books and fiction novels, and is also an abstract painter. Dwight offers practical steps to awaken, release resistance, and unlock an extraordinary life via one-on-one coaching, live group programs, events, sessions, retreats, and speaking to groups large and small.
Dwight's expertise in multiple healing modalities and his commitment to being of service led him to create the powerful Wildlight Healing System, which he downloaded from the universe in 5 minutes. This system is so easy a child can do it. His healing background and training include Reiki, MariEl, Matrix Energetics, The Emergence Process (a mind-body technique), mental, emotional, and subconscious healing, numerology, hypnosis-level meditations, and visualizations. Dwight feels energy and is intuitively guided as to what resistance his clients need to release. He uses coaching principles, advanced meditations, and energy modalities to facilitate profound transformations.
Dwight’s unique path and gifts enable his clients to hack into their Soul power. Imagine being guided through one of the most advanced healing processes in the world, where you literally partner with your Soul to heal and release all resistance you have from every version of yourself. Dwight calls this “healing your multiverse”. All layers are healed simultaneously as you and your Soul become free from all karma, lessons, energetic blocks, subconscious programs, thoughts, belief systems, agreements with other Souls, and the Akashic records.
Join Dwight on the ultimate journey of self-discovery, healing, and realizing your fullest potential. Unlock your incredible inner power with The SoulHacker and author of The Formula For Lasting Happiness.
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EPISODE 347 - Dawn Williams - The Innocent Ignorance Surrounding Infertility - We talk to the author of Free To Conceive
Dawn Williams is a mom, author, and fertility guide who is passionate about helping women who are longing to conceive. Also known as Your Fertility Angel, she will help you find inner peace on your path to motherhood.
Dawn Williams knows the pains, sorrows, and challenges of the conception journey first-hand. Her exclusive Five-Point Superstar method to overcoming fertility challenges considers more than just the physical reasons that impede conception. In particular, Dawn will help you bring your mind, body, and spirit back into alignment to create the ideal conditions for conception and motherhood to flourish. Her compassionate approach will allow you to transform your relationship with fertility and achieve lasting lightness and joy.
Dawn believes extraordinary life emerges when we step into our true selves. She has a master’s degree in counseling psychology and resides with her beloved husband, daughter, and three dogs in Eastern Pennsylvania.
Book: Free to Conceive
How to Reclaim Your Fertility and Restore Your Inner Peace
What if you knew there was a path through your infertility?
Dawn Williams is a mom, author, and fertility guide who is passionate about helping women who are longing to conceive. Also known as Your Fertility Angel, she will help you find inner peace on your path to motherhood.
Dawn Williams knows the pains, sorrows, and challenges of the conception journey first-hand. Her exclusive Five-Point Superstar method to overcoming fertility challenges considers more than just the physical reasons that impede conception. In particular, Dawn will help you bring your mind, body, and spirit back into alignment to create the ideal conditions for conception and motherhood to flourish. Her compassionate approach will allow you to transform your relationship with fertility and achieve lasting lightness and joy.
https://yourfertilityangel.com/
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Episode 346 - Anna Schmidt - The Darkness Around Us - Demystifying the Dark RealmAnna works as a paranormal specialist, energy worker and house healer with a lifetime of experience working with the invisible realms around us. She has a kind, compassionate nature reflected in her work, and most of all, she uses a respectful approach towards assisting all energetic beings. In return, Anna witnesses paranormal experiences no other human has been allowed to see until now.
The Book: The Darkness Around Us - What are dark energy beings, and why are they here?- How do they affect us and our homes, and what to do about it?- How do we respectfully remove them from our home, and where do they go?How to recognise paranormal addiction and what to do about it!In your hands, you have a handbook like no other. This book aims to educate the reader by demystifying the Dark Realm and its inhabitants. As we live in a shared environment filled with invisible energy beings, awareness of their tactics and intentions is essential for maintaining our well-being and harmonious surroundings. You will read page after page of helpful information and more than 110 real-life experiences, which I have collected over 30 years of my personal and work-related experiences with dark energy beings. They are not as scary as you think! When you have the knowledge and clear understanding of what is out there, you improve your self-awareness and make more appropriate life decisions. You consciously choose to raise your vibration and create more positive emotions, therefore avoiding dark energy presence within yourself and your home.
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Episode 345 - Rod Jeter - A Relationship Game and Book to Get Couples Talking - YBAngry
YBAngry Relationship Game
Why be angry? No more arguing. The YBAngry relationship game makes communication with the one you love fun and easy. If you can count to fourteen, you can play YBAngry to ENJOY resolving most any disagreement with the one you love, in just minutes... NO FUSS NO DRAMA (Patent Pending). Issues lasting from several months to over 50 years, all resolved in minutes, playing YBAngry for the very first time. Why be angry?
How It All Began
"Couples Coaching With Instant Results".
A couple of years ago, Rod and his wife were kicked out of marriage counselling. It was just the fifth of what was supposed to be twelve sessions. Admittedly, it was clearly Rod's fault. He was being stubborn. Never the less, he was moved to find a way to help couples see better results, FASTER. Rod created a game to help couples stay together, one issue at a time. Simply, by resolving their disagreements in just minutes. It is literally, "Couples Coaching With Instant Results."
Rod's game approach helps couples overcome seemingly insurmountable disagreements that have lasted decades, in just minutes - NO FUSS NO DRAMA.
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BONUS - Dave's Book Suggestion for April 2024 - Jamie Kern Lima - Worthy, How to Believe You Are Enough and Transform Your Life
What has self-doubt already cost you in your life? WORTHY is how you change that. Imagine what you'd do, if you FULLY believed in YOU! When you stop doubting your greatness, build unshakable self-worth and embrace who you are, you transform your entire life! WORTHY teaches you how, with simple steps that lead to life-changing results!
"In life, you don't soar to the level of your hopes and dreams, you stay stuck at the level of your self-worth. In your business, leadership, relationships, friendships and ambitions, you don't rise to what you believe is possible, you fall to what you believe you're worthy of. When you build your self-worth, you change your entire life. WORTHY teaches you how. I wrote WORTHY for YOU if you have some self-doubt to destroy and a destiny to fulfill!"—Jamie Kern Lima
Author Jamie Kern Lima's first, instant New York Times bestselling book Believe It, captured her journey of going from Denny's waitress to billion-dollar entrepreneur by learning to believe in herself. And now her second, much-anticipated, upcoming book Worthy, is the playbook for how YOU can believe in YOU! If you've ever struggled with self-doubt, felt like you don't have what it takes...or that who you truly are isn't enough, even if you're really good at hiding it from the world, WORTHY is for you.
If you've been underestimating your talent and gifts, or battle imposter syndrome, WORTHY is for you. If you've been letting fear of failure and rejection hold you back, WORTHY is for you. If you've learned to please others so much that you end up betraying yourself, WORTHY is for you. If you're ready to get unstuck and fully believe in YOU, WORTHY is for you! When you change what you believe you're worthy of, you change your entire life.
Imagine...what would you do if you had zero self-doubt and unshakable self-worth? What would you do if you fully believed in YOU?
Audio Book link - https://amzn.to/43xRvlb Paperback Version - https://amzn.to/3PG8BaG
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Episode 344 - Regina LaFrance - Author of Shayla - Rescuing the inner child
AUTHOR
Author REGINA LAFRANCE has come a long way since her native homeland, a small village in Portugal. A place she called home until tragedy struck. Her semi-autographical novel, SHAYLA, is a depiction of what happened and draws from her direct experience—deep-rooted wounds and trauma that has followed her into adulthood.
SHAYLA is Regina’s sharing, and hope, for others who have been molested and suffered from abuse. Passionate in her perseverance and resolve of this issue, Regina speaks to the realities of child sexual abuse—escalating at an alarming rate. Her intention for writing this book is to increase awareness, and her public outcry, to parents raising children; in her mission to identify when a child is in fear of speaking up. And to prevent the unthinkable from happening to our precious young and innocent.
Shayla’s concept of “play” by any youthful standard was about to be forever shattered.
Her predator would force her to do her duty, and the unthinkable. Too young, too weak, too late... Her chastity taken away from her, she was out for revenge. Shayla knew what she had to do next.
She would run away from her haunted past. Until it caught up with her future.
Inspired by real events, this incredible story could have been prevented... if only her parents would have listened.
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Episode 343 - Chris Mitchell - Success Balloons, Self-Confidence, I Am Me
86% of the disabled community
struggles with self-confidence!
Through my signature coaching program, I can help you discover, develop and grow the self-confidence necessary to succeed as a self-employed person with a disability.
https://thechrismitchell.com/cheatsheet/ Is YOUR lack of self-confidence holding you back from being a successful self-employed person with a disability?
Then you need my free cheat sheet with your first three steps to self-confidence
This cheat sheet will give you 3 things you can start doing today to develop and grow your self-confidence.
Look, I get it. I know that being a person with a disability can do a number on your self-confidence. You may have experienced people telling you no just because you are a person with a disability. I know that people have told me I could not do things because I am a person with a disability and encountered many barriers that stood between me and my goals.
Despite it all, I am a successful self-employed person with 3 major disabilities: a physical disability, a visual impairment, and a neurodiverse diagnosis of ADHD. I have started and ran three businesses out of my home and been in Entrepreneur magazine. If you would ask me what my secret to success has been, I would have to say that it was having self-confidence in myself and my abilities even when others or society doubted my abilities.
I want to see you have the self-confidence you need to become successfully employed or a successful self-employed person with a disability and that starts with you taking your next three steps to self-confidence.
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Episode 342 - Phebe Trotman - Borrow Gratitude and Never Quit on a Bad Day
About the author
Phebe Trotman is a heart-centred entrepreneur and accomplished soccer player. She has achieved many accolades as a soccer player, including being inducted into several sports halls of fame, winning championship titles, and being recognized as an exceptional athlete. Phebe has also excelled in her career as a network marketer, earning top awards and recognition within her company. She is passionate about personal growth and empowering others to reach their full potential.
Six simple words. One short phrase. Yet the meaning behind this saying, if you live by it, will change your life.
Never Quit on a Bad Day
The Never Quit on a Bad Day™ book series will inspire you to push through the tough days. Everyone has frustrating moments and days. The people in this book also faced challenges and struggles, but they didn’t quit. You’ll read about some of the bad moments, days, and seasons thriving business leaders, couples, athletes and entrepreneurs have persevered through to get to where they are now, which can help you learn how to keep going on your challenging days.
This book won’t just to inspire you to keep going on the difficult days, it will also give you tools, ideas, and tips to help you push through those tough days, and remind you just how resilient you really are!
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Episode 341 - Taylor Duran - A Fantasy Story That Addresses Trauma and Recovery Through StoryMy name’s Taylor Duran, and I’m from San Antonio. I love playing pool, spending time with family and writing unique stories that are relatable. I attended the University of Texas at San Antonio, on and off for five years, and have nothing to show for it. That’s okay, because college isn’t for everyone.
I fell into my book series without warning and without prior knowledge of my writing abilities. I am writing a fantasy book series about overcoming the effects of trauma in one’s mind in a realistic and honest way. As much as this series is about fantasy, it’s even more so about the mental health journey.
Often, in our darkest places, a single ray of hope in the face of adversity shines its brightest. This line is the reason it’s being written, for hope, and to end the stigma.
I am most proud of the readers’ take-a-way of my novel. Those who’ve read it end up laughing, crying, and rooting for my main character. I am proud of what this is going to do for the world, and what it stands for. This journey from feeling broken, to becoming comfortable being uncomfortable, then to being okay with being vulnerable is difficult.
I was in so much pain for so long; I learned to love it. I yearned for it. When I started my journey, it was scary, and unbearable to me. The closer I came to being healthy and letting my pain go, the more my fears took control. The questions I had playing on a loop in my mind were.
One of my all-time favorite quotes is “The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.” – Mark Twain.
I believe we all have a purpose for being born, a calling to make an impact. However small or large that impact is, doesn’t matter, just that we live up to it. My freshman year in high school I was hit with my purpose, to affect great change in the world. Sadly, I didn’t know how I was going to achieve that.
Life had been kicking me so hard around that time, to the point I wasn’t capable of being the man I am today. It prevented me from growing, and flourishing into a healthy person. For years, I wallowed in my own mental pain, until it came to a head when I contemplated suicide. Realizing these thoughts, I checked myself into a behavioral health facility and began the healing process. It was in that facility, in October 2021, I found my passion for writing a story. Not only writing it, but making it easy for the readers to identify with my main character’s struggles.
Website: https://www.officialtaylorduran.com/
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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/enlightenmentseries
Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-duran-401845100/
Other: https://www.writersrepublic.com/bookshop/kayla-find-me-enlightenment-series
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Episode 340 - Tammy Vincent - Surviving an Alcoholic Family - free your inner child, life filled with joy and purpose
Meet Transformational Life Coach, Best-Selling Author and Speaker, Tammy Vincent
Children of Alcoholics and Dysfunctional Families Feel Unworthy, Unloved, Unheard. I walk with you until you have recreated the best version of yourself possible.
Hey there! I'm Tammy, and I'm honored to connect with you on this journey of self-discovery, healing, and empowerment. As an adult child of two alcoholic parents, I intimately understand the challenges and struggles you might be facing. But let me tell you, there is hope, and I'm here to guide you towards a brighter, more fulfilling future.
Growing up in a home filled with addiction and chaos, I experienced firsthand the profound impact it can have on a child's life. The wounds ran deep, affecting my self-esteem, relationships, and overall well-being. However, I refused to let my past define me. I embarked on a courageous journey of self-work, determined to break free from the chains of my upbringing.
Through years of personal growth, introspection, and professional training, I've transformed my own life. Armed with a Master's in Education, NLP certification, and expertise in addiction counseling, I've honed my skills to become a compassionate and effective coach. My mission is to empower individuals who are navigating similar challenges, providing them with the tools and guidance to reclaim their lives.
https://www.tammyvincent.com/
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Episode 339 - Trunnis Goggins II - We Explore Purpose, Passion, Planning, and Persistence for ultimate personal development
Welcome to "The 4Ps of You" podcast, your gateway to a transformative journey of self-discovery and personal growth. I'm your host, Trunnis Goggins II, and I will be guiding you towards unlocking your full potential. In this podcast, we'll embark on an exploration of the four fundamental pillars that shape your path to success: Purpose, Passion, Planning, and Persistence.
Throughout this series, we'll delve into the profound impact of each of these principles on your journey. We'll uncover how understanding your Purpose can set the stage for remarkable achievements. We'll explore the vital role Passion plays in igniting innovation and driving dedication. We'll dive into the strategic art of Planning and discover how it can turn your dreams into actionable steps. And we'll uncover the unwavering power of Persistence in overcoming obstacles and achieving greatness.
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Episode 338 - Elizabeth Kipp - Chronic Pain, Get Out of Your Head and Into Your Heart
Elizabeth Kipp is a Chronic Pain Specialist, Yoga-Informed and Trauma-Informed Addiction Recovery Coach, Ancestral Clearing® Practitioner, Yoga and Meditation Teacher, and international best-selling author of “The Way Through Chronic Pain: Tools to Reclaim Your Healing Power.. She focuses on helping people realize the power of their inherent healing.
Elizabeth healed from over 40 years of chronic pain, including anxiety, panic attacks, and 32 years of addiction to prescribed opiate and benzodiazepine medication. She now works to help others achieve the same healing that she experienced directly from the work she teaches. In addition,Elizabeth offers one-on-one and group sessions in stress and chronic pain management and addiction recovery, Ancestral Clearing®, trauma-informed yoga, and meditation. Her website is https://Elizabeth-Kipp.com.
Elizabeth has a diverse background in plant sciences, agriculture, ecology, environmental studies, and remote sensing. She holds a B.S. in plant science with an emphasis on agriculture., soil science, and plant ecology from the University of Delaware.
She pursued an M.S. in environmental studies at the University of Kansas with an emphasis on remote sensing, ecology, and environmental resource analysis.
Elizabeth was engaged in basic and applied research in remote sensing from 1979-1982. At that time, she worked with the Kansas Applied Remote Sensing (KARS) Program, which was funded by a grant from NASA and under mandate from the Carter Administration.
Elizabeth has authored and co-authored a number of peer-reviewed research papers. In addition, she was an editor with over 35 years of experience.
Elizabeth serves people suffering from chronic pain or who are in recovery from it. Since addiction is so closely relate to chronic pain, she also serves the addiction recovery community as a Yoga-Informed and Trauma-Informed Recovery Coach, trained intensively by Tommy Rosen of Recovery 2.0.
Ancestral Clearing® is an integral part of the healing work she offers to help people release the effects of intergenerational trauma.
Elizabeth works in person, over the phone or online around the world. She appears on panel discussions, summits, and other speaking engagements in her areas of expertise.
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Episode 337 - JR Byers - Contemporary, Paranormal, and Historical Romance Novels
About the author
J.R. Byers lives in Jacksonville, Fl with her husband, daughter, and Five dogs.
A new author, she writes contemporary, paranormal, and historical romance novels, and credits her love of writing to the very first romance novel she read at the age of Twelve.
Book: Finding Emmaline (A Blackwood Series) - Aberdeen, Scotland. 1744
William Blackwood had it all.
The oldest son of a wealthy whisky merchant, the devastatingly handsome bachelor was more than content with his life.
He had a wonderful family, good friends, and the freedom to do as he pleased.
The gentleman bad boy known affectionately as The Prince of Aberdeen, the ladies loved him. And he loved them.
When Emmaline Bissette, his childhood friend, walks back into his life, his whole world changes. Suddenly, the thought of spending a lifetime with one woman doesn’t seem so mundane as he once thought, and the idea of marriage and a family of his own becomes rapidly appealing.
But when tragedy strikes, his love is cruelly taken from him, and William is left grief stricken and alone.
Devastated by his loss and racked with guilt over the circumstances of her death, the handsome widower leaves Scotland behind in the hopes of escaping the painful memories.
Vowing to never love again, William has kept his heart guarded for nearly three centuries.
But now, he yearns to go home, back to his beloved Scotland.
Where fate, it seems, is not quite done with him just yet……
Book: Kane's Reckoning (A Blackwood Series) - When Emily Snow travels to Scotland to meet handsome entrepreneur Kane Blackwood, she had three objectives.
Return the man’s painting.
Have a holiday.
And see the sights.
It was a dream come true, a chance of a lifetime. And one she couldn’t pass up.
After meeting the devastatingly attractive businessman in person, however, she realizes that Kane Blackwood, with his dark, good looks, and sexy Scottish charm, was everything she looked for in a man.
But when secrets are revealed that shatter her entire existence, can she accept the past, and embrace a destiny that had been foretold long ago?
Or should she walk away forever…?
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Episode 336 - Mike Van Pelt - True Man True Ways - A Roadmap of Discovery to the Masculine Heart
Mike Van Pelt Men's Mentor & Life CoachI help men unpack the goodness that’s already in their heart and discover the True Man inside of them.
"In Him lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge." Collossians 2:3
Christ is in us, all the treasures and wisdom are inside of you, my role is to listen, pray, ask powerful questions, and keep you accountable to do the things you say you'll do.But...We live in extraordinary times! Men are now more afraid than ever to be masculine, free, and alive. Many men live isolated, lonely, and unconnected lives. We hide behind the veil of status symbols hoping the truth will never come out. Ultimately, our social lives, and intimate relationships with family and God suffer. Does that sound familiar? |
When we live without purpose and clarity we live in a world of confusion and doubt. Does that sound like you?
The Book: True Man True Ways: A Roadmap of Discovery to the Masculine HeartMy goal in True Man True Ways: A Roadmap of Discovery to the Masculine Heart, is to give you roadmap to help you maneuver through the challenges of life and some rest stops to think about the purpose and direction of where you want to go. Of course, having directions, a map, a GPS, a way to get you where you're going is important.
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Episode 335 - Manohar Grandhi - My Sleepless Nights - A Story of Victory Over Insomnia
Do you wonder why should we sleep?We spend almost 1/3rd of our life sleeping and yet we hardly study about this time of life.
Do you want to improve your sleep or do you want to know how sleeping well can improve other areas of life?
✓ Are you struggling with insomnia?
✓ Are you living in anxiety related to sleep?
✓ Are you developing a limiting belief in sleep?
✓ Are you fighting with your brain and feeling shame?
✓ Are you waiting to fall asleep time every night?
✓ Are you spending the entire day thinking about sleep?
Hey there! I am Manohar Grandhi I am a software engineer by profession and have struggled for more than a year with all the above points.
I have written this book after struggling with insomnia and having sought intensive consultation with IITian turned Psychologist, Speaker, and Coach Karthik.
In this book, I have shared my firsthand experiences, struggles, and wins that helped me to turn intrinsic motivation into sustained motivation for reversing insomnia.
The methods I suggest in this book are easy yet effective. It worked for me. It is also working for tons of people and it will work for you as well because it is backed by science. The method I suggest in the book in reversing anxiety/insomnia has been in practice for around 5000 years.
What will you get from this book?
1) Freedom from anxiety.
2) Peace of mind.
3) A process to get rid of anti-anxiety pills.
Here is my proposal–try the methods with an open mind and whole-hearted attempts, trust the process, and see the magical changes in your mind.
Imagine sleeping like a child without any worry, and not spending a single minute of the day being anxious about sleep.
Book: My Sleepless Nights: A Story of Victory over Insomnia
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Episode 334 - Adam Gaffen - a Romantasy that will make you question what's really going on in the celestial realms
About the author
Adam Gaffen is a multi-faceted, Amazon bestsellingauthor of the award-winning CASSIDY CHRONICLES series of near future science fiction novels. His stories have appeared in the bestselling anthologies A SEASON FOR ROMANCE: SPRING BLOSSOMS (Cassia Hall, publisher), RISING WONDER (Robert Zangari, publisher), and WICKED WISHES (Fiction-Atlas Press, publisher). A 2020 Drunken Druid Literary Award Finalist, the capstone novel in his Artemis War series, Triumph's Ashes, was named one of the Top 50 Indie Books of 2021 by ReadFree. This book was joined in 2022 by The Ghosts of Tantor and in 2023 by The Heart of Space with the same recognition. The story "A Piece of the Action" (included in the collection INTO THE BLACK) was awarded an Honorable Mention by the Writers of the Future Contest. He's also been a pioneer on Amazon's Kindle Vella with numerous stories set in his Cassidyverse.
His latest venture, the GODSFALL series, is a romantasy that will make you question what's really going on in the celestial realms. He is an active member of the Heinlein Society, the Colorado Authors League, the Science Fiction Writers of America, and a frequent guest on the science fiction convention circuit. When he's not writing he is probably editing for other independent authors, or supporting them by publishing interviews on his website.
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Episode 333 - Michelle Vandepas - GracePoint Publishing, A Masterclass for Authors
Michelle co-founded GracePoint Publishing, a multimedia company that covers all aspects of publishing, from traditional to digital media and audio production. I’m always on the lookout for the fastest and most effective ways to deliver inspiration, ensuring that my clients’ voices and messages stay relevant and accessible in our ever-evolving cultural landscape.
My expertise has gained recognition through features in various media outlets, where I passionately advocate for the perfect balance between purpose and profit. Additionally, I’ve had the incredible opportunity to speak at TEDx events and coach other inspiring speakers on the TEDx stage. There’s nothing more fun and rewarding than watching clients step into their next level.
When I’m not immersed in the business world, you’ll find me nestled in the mountains of Colorado, surrounded by my family including my two elderly dogs and 40 goldfish. Being a foster mother to 10 children has been a transformative experience for me, inspiring me to write a book about my foster parenting journey. Oh, and you won’t want to miss hearing about my unforgettable role in the Netflix movie “Our Souls at Night,” where I had the privilege of sharing the screen with the legendary Jane Fonda and Robert Redford. (sort of)
I’m all about blending intellect, passion, and down-to-earth business sense to create a powerful journey for you. So, join me on this incredible journey of purpose and empowerment as we make a difference in the world together!
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Episode 329 - JB Harris - THE IMMIGRANT'S WIFE - The forbidden love of What She Left Behind
JB Harris lives in Massachusetts with her husband, three kids and two dogs. Her short fiction has appeared in publications such as Boston Literary Journal, The Beacon Street Review, and Puckerbrush Review. She was recently named a finalist in both the 2022 Hal Prize in Fiction and the WOW Spring 22 Flash Fiction Contest. Her debut novel The Immigrant’s Wife was released May 2023
"The Immigrant's Wife is a vivid and haunting novel told with great precision and heart. You can't help but root for Charles and Anna, two star-crossed strivers making their way in an unforgiving world. JB Harris has written a transporting debut." —Christopher Castellani, author of Leading Men Not all men who abandon their families are scoundrels.
A story of love and perseverance set when consumption ravaged America. Anna Patrinos is deserted by her husband. What she doesn’t know is he anonymously exiled to a TB sanatorium to protect her and their unborn baby from the deadly disease and the ruinous cost of his care. Anna’s battle with ostracism, starvation and assault to keep herself and her child alive interweaves with Charles’ fight to survive and return home to his family, which is complicated by his one night of indiscretion. Reunited, Anna and Charles confront what it means to belong and whether love is enough to heal their devastated lives and start anew. Harrowing but ultimately hopeful, The Immigrant’s Wife is a compelling story of self-sacrifice, resilience and devotion.
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Episode 332 - Tansy Boggon - Bring Yourself Into Your Work, Body Image, Joyful Eating and Childlessness
Tansy Boggon is a nutritionist and author of non-fiction, fiction and children’s books. Based in Christchurch, New Zealand, Tansy writes to help people break free of diet rules and diet mentality to embrace the joy of food without guilt and shame. She has written a novel, The Tears of a Woman, which weaves her own childlessness journey into a fictional story.
Author | Mindfulness Blogger | Nutritionist
specialising in a non-diet and mindful eating approach
Tansy Boggon, ANutr (Associate Nutritionist – The Nutrition Society of Australia), BAppSc(Hons), GCertHumNutr
I am an author, mindfulness blogger, recipe developer and university-qualified nutritionist with a passion for inspiring people to enjoy eating to nourish their body and for the pure pleasure of it — because I believe that eating is one of life’s joys.
I believe feeding ourselves shouldn’t be about deprivation, counting calories or portion control, which I believe do more to sabotage our health and happiness. It is my belief, through personal experience, exploration of the scientific literature and working with clients, that when we relax our diet rules and focus on the experience of eating, we can nourish our bodies in an intuitive and joyful way.
Through nutrition counselling, writing and workshops, I aim to demystify diet and nutrition myths, dispel confusion and ease the anxiety often associated with eating. I want to promote a joyful attitude towards food, irrespective of a person’s weight or size — because these aren’t accurate measures of health and happiness anyway!
I have experience providing one-on-one and group coaching, workshops, writing food and nutrition articles and recipe development. I incorporate a non-dieting approach, mindful eating, eating psychology, a passion for cooking and a love of eating into my work. You can find me sipping a latte, drooling over cookbooks, tapping away at my laptop or chopping veggies in the kitchen — all are joys to me!
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Episode 331 - A G Flitcher - A Four Character Rotation Horror that Sticks With YouAbout the author
I have always wanted to be a storyteller. For the last seven or eight years,
I went through trial and error to find out what kind of writer I wanted to be.
I started out as a screenwriter, in which I made a couple short films, and nearly had another one completed.
When I first started writing it, I signed up for an academic program called Library and Information Technology. Unfortunately, I feel regretful for entering the program.
Not because it is difficult, but because I truly want to pursue my career as a writer. My goal for the new year is to make it possible to leave school and put all my energy and
time to make that a reality.
I believe there is no such thing as a great writer, but a well-practiced writer. As for what I want to write about, I can sum it up in one sentence.
To show what the human spirit can do whether it is through light or darkness.
I always dreamed of doing my career in London, England. I do not know why. Just feels right.
A.G. Flitcher
Book Series - Boone and Jacque
A.G. Flitcher is a seven time award winning author who also placed in finals for Fantasy Series and Fantasy book for the OZMA Award. In addition, he has taught and mentored many the art of storytelling to novice writers and avid readers. His obsession with questioning the good and bad in life, the grey areas, and the scary parts of life, is what makes his work enthralling and colorful.
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Episode 330 - Jan Burl - Hemorrhagic Stroke Survivor - Beating the Odds and Telling Her Story
Jan Burl is a hemorrhagic stroke survivor. At the age of 50 she collapsed, and her life as a busy farmer and author came to a halt. In today's episode, Jan shares her inspirational story of learning how to depend on others, self-love, and the importance of slowing down and enjoying life.
My books are meant to entertain, teach, and take you away to different places, letting you escape the world around you for a bit. I hope you enjoy them. Life is a journey, day by day. Make every day extraordinary.
For more information about Jan visit https://www.thundercrestbooks.com
LinkedIn: / janet-burl-4476b416
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stroke #strokerecovery #positivity #hope #faith #believeinyourself #strokethriver #physicalchallenges #TBI #braininjury #traumaticbraininjury #rewireyourbrain #live #thriver
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Episode 328 - Dorian Johnson - The View From Above, One Father's Memoir of Grief Guided to Grace
Exactly one year later, Dorian hikes up the same trail as a memorial to his son and recalls the three-day search process with raw emotion. Bailand’s final text, “This is a beast of a hike, but talk about a view!” takes on a deeper meaning as Dorian relates his hike to the journey of life. This is not only a story of a man facing insurmountable loss and grief, but of his restorative process through the healing power of virtue and the spiritual connection he feels to his deceased son. “Remember in the New Testament, Jesus was touched by a woman with an issue of blood? He said He felt ‘virtue’ come out of Him with her touch.
As I considered this story, I was stumped thinking about which virtue the woman needed to heal her physical ailment. Which virtue came out of Him?”Belinda still looked confused. “I honestly have no idea.”“Does it matter?” I asked. “She was healed completely and whatever she needed for healing was offered by Christ.” Dorian has created The Chemistry of Virtues (modeled after the periodic table) to illustrate how virtues impact each other and can be used to successfully heal. No matter how deep the wound, virtuous actions provide hope for healing.
Find out about Dorian’s efforts to help others access healing through virtues at avirtuousfoundation.org.
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Episode 327 - Maria C Palmer - On The Rocks, The Story of the Primadonna Restaurant
Maria Costanzo Palmer is a writer and Page Turner Award Finalist for her co-authored book On the Rocks (Koehler Books 8/8/23). She is also a regular co-moderator for the Food Is Religion Club on Clubhouse. She was a former host on L.A. Talk Radio. Maria was recently featured on Food and Beverage Magazine Live, a nationally syndicated podcast. Her writing has been published in OC87 Recovery Diaries, and she has made a number of media appearances. You can find Maria on FB and IG @joecostanzoprimadonna and on Twitter @mariacpalmer.
Beyond the Rocks
Writing
- Maria is currently working on her second manuscript, What I Learned on the Bus. This unpublished manuscript, represented by her agent Leticia Gomez, details her 3,000-mile journey to escape and to make sense of her dad’s incarceration. The manuscript was recognized this year as a Finalist for the Writing and Screenplay Book Adaptation categories for the Page Turner Awards. https://pageturnerawards.com/2022-screenplay-award-finalists.
- Maria’s article “The Magical Little Pill,” talking about her difficulties with mental health following her father’s federal investigation, is featured on OC87 Recovery Diaries ( https://oc87recoverydiaries.org/magical-little-pill/).
- Maria’s article “The Culinary Cardinal,” which details her experiences growing up having Sunday dinners at her Italian immigrant grandparents’ home, was featured in Growing Up in an Immigrant Household, Essays by Descendants of Immigrants published by Innovative Ink Publishing in an anthology edited by Vicky Giouroukakis.
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Episode 326 - Marcel Kuhn - Writing in Flow State, Asking Questions, Pedestals and Platforms
About the author
Marcel Kuhn is a Swiss visionary speaker, author, coach, father, dreamer, and soul surfer who passionately explores the edges of his comfort zone and what it means to create an unthinkable reality through FLOW: Finding Love and Oneness Within. Marcel has spent over a decade immersed in personal development, traveling globally to work with top experts from coaches, speakers, and trainers, to spiritual healers and shamans. Through his impeccable storytelling, discoveries, and practices, Marcel guides and inspires others to connect with their dreams and do the unthinkable while creating joy and fulfillment along the way.
Book: Unthinkable: Life Teachings From a Soul Surfer - Steeped in the beautiful and eternal metaphor of water and surfing, Unthinkable will take you on the ride of your life, from being stuck, uncertain, and unfulfilled to surrendered, inspired, and tapped into an unthinkable life of limitless potential. This book is a breath of fresh air, taking you from drowning in a thinkable life of stress and overwhelm and guiding you back to the surface like a dancing cork. We are all designed to FLOW merrily merrily with the natural current of life because it is truly but a dream.
https://www.unthinkableliving.com/
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Episode 325 - Jackie Scully - The Guided Teacher, Promoting dignity in education for all
Jackie ScullyEducator - Author - Podcaster - Speaker
Jackie Scully, M.Ed is an accomplished History and Psychology Teacher, recognized for her dedication to education With almost 20 years of diverse teaching experience across various educational landscapes, Jackie brings a unique perspective to the heart of education. Her unwavering commitment centers on principles of dignity, freedom, joy, and community. With a mission to promote dignity in education for all, Jackie Scully is a driving force in the pursuit of a brighter future for learners and educators alike.
The Book:
The Guided Teacher: Unveiling Truth to Light the Path Ahead
Join Jackie Scully, M.Ed., on an inspiring journey through the heart of education reform and empowerment. With almost 20 years of diverse teaching experience across various educational landscapes, Jackie brings a unique perspective to the heart of education. In her captivating memoir, The Guided Teacher, she chronicles her evolution from a dedicated classroom teacher to a fearless advocate for change. From bustling classrooms in Hawaii to an international school in China, Jackie's path is one of unwavering commitment to student growth and well-being. In 2022, driven by a desire to reshape education, she boldly became a torchbearer for reform. Through her acclaimed podcast, The Teacher Story, and the thriving community of educators she co-founded, The Teacher Circle on LinkedIn, she amplifies teacher voices and sparks conversations that matter. At the heart of this memoir lies the core belief that education can transcend its boundaries to become a nurturing ground for students to thrive as individuals. A light exists despite the shadows that may persist. Jackie's vision transcends traditional learning environments, envisioning schools as spaces where children and teenagers flourish not just academically, but as holistic human beings. Her story becomes a guiding light, not only for those within the education sector, but for all who seek a deeper truth within themselves. Embark on a transformative expedition with Jackie Scully as she reveals a path forward: A path that holds the promise of a brighter, more empowered future for education and beyond!
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Episode 324 - Jerry Roisentul - From Suicide Attempt to Self-Empowerment - A Story of Overcoming Doubt and Fear
As a Maxwell Leadership Certified Coach, Teacher, Trainer and Speaker, I can offer you workshops, seminars, keynote speaking, and coaching, aiding your personal and professional growth through study and practical application of John’s proven leadership methods. Working together, I will move you and/or your team or organization in the desired direction to reach your goals. Lead and Lift Podcast: Mastering Your Mindset
Have you ever struggled with turning off the negative voice in your head?
You deal with fears, doubts, insecurities, worries and feelings of self-worth and those thoughts are sometimes hard to turn off in your mind.
You can’t control the thousands of thoughts that come to your mind daily, however, you have total control over which of those thoughts YOU CHOOSE to focus on. CLICK HERE TO LISTEN NOW
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Episode 323 - Catherine Kennedy - Working with a freelance publicist to build your successful brand
Catherine Kennedy is a public relations professional with more than 16 years of experience planning, managing, and executing successful national and local media campaigns. She started her full-time public relations career at Wiley publishing house, moved onto a position at a boutique PR agency, and then became a freelance publicist helping authors and experts build a successful brand for themselves. She created CK Publicity to continue her work promoting authors and launching books. Kennedy graduated magna cum laude from New York University with a degree in communications.
CK Publicity helps writers build their author platforms and execute successful book launches. We support our author clients through every step of the book promotion process, from book blurbs and Amazon reviews to media interviews and book signing events. The most effective publicity plan starts months before a book’s publication date, so please feel free to reach out even if you are just finishing up your first draft.
The earlier we start, the more buzz we can build for you!
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Episode 322 - Debbie Weiss - Available As Is - widowhood, dating at midlife
I turned to writing after George, my partner of 32 years, died of cancer in April 2013, and I found myself living alone for the first time at age 50.
I needed to know I still existed after a year of being his caregiver, watching him disintegrate, feeling deep in my bones that somehow I was failing him. He was in denial so he thought he was going to recover even as his body abandoned him.
I couldn’t fix his illness, not could I jolt him into reality, nor get him to agree to palliative care, nor to involve his parents who were going to lose their only child. I thought I was crawling out of my skin. Through grief therapy, I found out I had post-traumatic stress disorder.
Over the next few years, I sort of got better, in dribs and drabs, but the loneliness enveloped me. For 32 years, George and I had eaten dinner together almost every night, then curled up in bed to wake up beside each other each morning. I still wonder, where does all that love go? Is it transmuted into protective energy or is it just gone?
I was a practicing attorney for over ten years which lends my writing an acrid tone of bitterness and irony. In an effort to work on that, I also earned an MFA in creative nonfiction from Saint Mary’s College of California in May of 2020.
My essays have been published in The New York Times’ “Modern Love” column, HuffPost, Woman’s Day, Good Housekeeping, Elle Decor, and Reader’s Digest, among other publications. My award-winning blog, debbieweissauthor.com dispenses empathy and advice on grief and dating after loss.
Book: Available As Is - After losing her husband, George—her one and only since high school prom—to cancer, fifty-year-old Debbie Weiss found herself opening a new chapter of life that she didn’t know how to start.
Initially, she binge-watched Netflix and drank Manhattans. Then she became a dating monster—starting with J-Date and then moving on to multiple other sites. Soon, Debbie was averaging two dates a day; in the blink of an eye, she’d gone from respectable widow to the girl you’d do in your Trans Am but wouldn’t take to the prom. At one point, she was actually dating four guys at once, including a politician who refused to let Debbie meet his family because they’d met online. But as she juggled these many men, she began to feel that midlife dating was less an earnest romantic endeavor and more a battle of the sexes . . . and the line in the sand was how much women were willing to tolerate.
Fed up, Debbie went offline. Only then, without the distraction of dating to keep her busy, did she finally, truly grieve her loss—and as she did, she also realized that she needed to forgive herself, both for George’s death and for losing her identity in their marriage. Equal parts poignant and punchy, Available As Is is a darkly humorous account of seeking love—but finding yourself
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EPISODE 321 - Justin Glaser - We turn up the heat with Justin's new book - Sweat, Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower
Discover how a health crisis led Justin to the incredible benefits of sauna therapy, sparking his research into this field.
The Book: Sweat: Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower
A revolutionary exploration of sweat's role in health and longevity that challenges current medical thinking about the modern health crisis and offers actionable steps for leading a long, healthy life.
"An essential read for anyone seeking a deeper understanding of health, detoxification, and the transformative power of sweat." - Katie Kaps, co-founder of Higher Dose
Unleash Your Body's Hidden Superpower...
In the quest for well-being, one ancient practice has been overlooked by modern medicine: the transformative power of sweat. "Sweat: Uncovering Your Body's Hidden Superpower" is not just a book—it's a revelation that will redefine your approach to health and vitality.
What You Will Discover:
- How science is embracing the art of sweating and its ability to unlock unprecedented levels of health and well-being.
- The universal tradition of saunas and their varied, potent health benefits.
- An exploration of the types of saunas (like steam rooms, dry saunas, and infrared saunas).
- How our modern civilization has overrun us with toxins and chemicals that require detoxification, and how sweat is a secret weapon.
- Groundbreaking research that sheds light on how sweat influences our vitality, longevity, and overall well-being.
- The world's most powerful detoxification protocols that has changed the lives of thousands.
- Simple, actionable strategies to harness the power of sweat in your daily routine.
"A truly fascinating journey into a remarkably neglected aspect of our well-being. Sweat is a must-read for anyone committed to optimal health in the modern world." - Dan Root, President of PureBeing
Take Control of Your Health Journey... Are you ready to embrace a life of energy and vitality? To tap into ancient wisdom backed by modern science? "Sweat" is your guide to exploring the life-changing benefits of this natural process.
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Episode 320 - Kim McCollum - What Happens in Montana - A Murder Mystery
Kim McCollum lives in Bozeman, Montana with her blended menagerie of five kids, two dogs, and seven spoiled chickens. An excerpt from her upcoming novel What Happens in Montana (release date January 25, 2024) appeared in The Copperfield Review Quarterly and her short stories have appeared in The Dillydoun Review, Beyond Solace, and Fiction on the Web. She was a finalist in Now Novel's character writing contest and is the author of the travel blog happygoluckytraveler.com.
Book: What Happens in Montana explores friendship, betrayal, and forgiveness with blunt truth and witty insights. Join Maude and her newfound friends as they confront the challenges of life, love, and the occasional poltergeist. Is their friendship strong enough to get them through it all?
A girlfriend’s reunion at a haunted, holistic hot springs retreat in Montana leads to spilled secrets and betrayal, but does it also lead to murder?
Whiskey-swigging Maude Reeves, the nearly eighty-year-old chef, longs for the glory days when the retreat hosted martini-sipping celebrities instead of long-haired hippies who refuse to wear deodorant. She prefers the company of her dog and the ghost who haunts the retreat to regular people, but one of the ladies who arrives for the reunion bears a striking resemblance to her late daughter, and she is helplessly drawn in. Brooke, feisty, adventurous, and a bit reckless, proposes the reunion at the retreat with her best friends to get away from the current chaos of her life. One of those friends, Tracy, has devoted her life to her children and her husband despite her excruciating boredom. But a long-held secret threatens these friendships she holds most dear. Haunting the place is a ghost who, in life, dealt with tragedy by turning to prostitution which led to her murder over 100 years ago at the very place they are all staying.
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Episode 319 - Beyond The Pen Podcast - From Book to Clients Learn How to Market Your Book Authentically with Judy M. Baker
Hi everyone! I wanted to introduce you to another great author podcast called "Beyond the Pen" This is a feed drop - a full episode from Beyond the Pen for you to check out right here on Living The Next Chapter.
Macabee Griffin is your host and his guest is Judy M Baker - here is the show notes from this episode on Beyond the Pen
Original Episode Date - April 11, 2023
In This Episode
Dive into the world of book marketing with Maccabee Griffin and notable guest author and book marketer Judy M. Baker as they explore innovative strategies and share insider tips to help authors captivate their ideal readers. In this episode of Beyond the Pen, Judy reveals the secrets of building a powerful brand, harnessing the power of third-party verification, and mastering the art of email lists.
Whether you're a seasoned author or just starting out, tune in to learn how to elevate your book marketing game and enchant your audience like never before! Join us as we discuss the love for books, the ever-evolving publishing industry, and the importance of thinking outside the box. Don't miss out on Judy's exclusive offer for her transformative book marketing course that will take your author journey to new heights!
Judy M. Baker is the Book to MoneyMaker coach.
Her personal plot twist came with a diagnosis of ovarian cancer. Along with this challenge, she discovered an unyielding resilience and tenacity that shines through her work with authors. Her path to healing brought deep insights, enriching her approach to book marketing with creativity, compassion, and curiosity.
She connects with authors at every stage of their journey, offering personalized coaching, engaging workshops, and comprehensive programs and courses designed to illuminate the path to success.
Judy’s poetry and stories grace multiple anthologies and her current publishing projects are infused with inspiration and practical guidance.
Judy helps authors put marketing into everyday conversations, she demonstrates how small, strategic actions build awareness, gain attention, grow connections, and sell more books.
Links
- Writer Beware - https://www.sfwa.org/other-resources/for-authors/writer-beware/
- Judy's Freebies: https://bookmarketingmentor.com/freebie
- Redwood Writers: https://redwoodwriters.org/
- Masterclass: https://bookmarketingmentor.com/mca12
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EPISODE 318 - Paula Delgado-Kling - Leonor The Story of a Lost Childhood in Colombia
Our Guest: Paula Delgado-Kling holds degrees in comparative literature, French civilizations, international affairs, and creative writing from Brown, Columbia and the New School, respectively.
This is her first book. It has been excerpted in Narrative Magazine (Winter 2008 issue), The Literary Review (Winter 2009 issue and reprinted in the 60th anniversary issue, fall 2017), Pacifica Literary Review (Winter 2017 issue), The Grief Diaries (February 2017 issue), and translated into Japanese for happano.org (January 2017 issue).
For this book, she received two grants from the Canada Council for the Arts, and won the OneWorld Prize in nonfiction from the Pan African Literary Forum, for which she was awarded a trip to Accra, Ghana to share her work. Paula’s website is pauladelgadokling.com. Her reportage, “El Diario de Maher Arar,” was anthologized in Las Mejores Crónicas de Gatopardo (Random House Mondadori, 2006).
Since March 2005, she has been an assistant editor at Narrative Magazine. She lives in New York.
The Book: Leonor: The Story of a Lost Childhood Paperback - Set in the author’s homeland, Colombia, this is the heartbreaking story of Leonor, former child soldier of the FARC, a rural guerrilla group.
Paula Delgado-Kling followed Leonor for nineteen years, from shortly after she was an active member of the FARC forced into sexual slavery by a commander thirty-four years her senior, through her rehabilitation and struggle with alcohol and drug addiction, to more recent days as the mother of two girls.
Leonor’s physical beauty, together with resourcefulness and imagination in the face of horrendous circumstances, helped her carve a space for herself in a male-dominated world. She never stopped believing that she was a woman of worth and importance. It took her many years of therapy to accept that she was also a victim.
Throughout the story of Leonor, Delgado-Kling interweaves the experiences of her own family, involved with Colombian politics since the 19th century and deeply afflicted, too, by the decades of violence there.
https://www.amazon.ca/Leonor-Story-Childhood-Paula-Delgado-Kling/dp/1682194477
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Episode 317 - Katherine Snow Smith - Watch Your Step, Life Has Many Chapters
Katherine Snow Smith has lived throughout the south as a newspaper reporter,
magazine editor, adjunct instructor, daughter, sister, mother, wife, divorcee and friend. She graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and started her journalism career covering three minuscule towns in South Carolina. After a stint covering business in Charlotte she got married, moved to St. Petersburg, Florida, and started a 20-year career at the Tampa Bay Times. Katherine raised three children with her husband, a fellow journalist. After their 24-year-marriage ended and last child went away to college, Katherine returned to her native North Carolina to be closer to her parents in Raleigh. Now, three kids, two careers and one divorce later, she’s back at her alma mater getting a master’s degree in Media and Communications so she can teach journalism on a college level. Most of her classmates are less than half her age. They help her with coding homework and she waxes on annoyingly about how life has many chapters they’ll never expect. Some are piercing. Some are priceless. Keep turning the page.
Book - Stepping on the Blender - Journalist Katherine Snow Smith returned to her native North Carolina after her last child left the nest and a 24-year marriage ended. With more baggage and less time on the clock, she thought of fellow Tar Heel Thomas Wolfe’s book You Can’t Go Home Again. She writes with vulnerability and humor about forging an unexpected path, parenting, dating, reporting, aging, loss and launching the next act in a full life.
Oh yeah, she stepped on a blender minutes before leaving Florida for this latest chapter. Sometimes you just have to prop your bloody foot on the dashboard and put it in drive.
Book: Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker - Southern women are inundated with rules starting early―from always wearing sensible shoes to never talking about death to the dying, and certainly not relying on song lyrics for marriage therapy.
Nevertheless, Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school “lice mom,” and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year marriage ends. Somehow, despite never meaning to defy Southern expectations for parenting, marriage, work, and friendship, Smith has found herself doing just that for over four decades.
Rules for the Southern Rule Breaker will resonate with every woman, southern or not, who has a tendency to wander down the hazy side roads and realizes the rewards that come from listening to the pull in one’s heart over the voice in one’s head.
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Episode 316 - Steve O'Connell - Welcome to Earth - Your Manual On How To Break Those Chains
About the Author
Steve O’Connell, a proponent of the human race, is best known for his simple, clear, impartial observations of humanity and life’s nuances. Always seeking betterment and growth through knowledge and understanding, he loves writing with the purpose of bringing people together, encouraging his human family to embrace real freedom—the freedom they innately desire.
The book: Welcome to Earth
Welcome to Earth Description:
From the perspective of an indifferent, unbiased outsider, Welcome to Earth exposes the imbalance in today’s society and reveals the truth behind the current plight of mankind. If you’re one of the many who feel humanity is beyond hope, if you feel stuck and powerless, or if you just need reassurance that all hope is not lost, you will find comfort in the pages of this book.
Welcome to Earth raises awareness to subconscious limiting beliefs, stimulates vitality within the human spirit, and offers healing for the oppressed. This book is the key to your freedom—humanity’s freedom—real freedom.
https://breaktheelephantchain.org/
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Episode 315 - Bob Mackay - Canadian Author Shares His Historical Fiction Writings and Stories of Military History
Robert W. Mackay is an award-winning author, former naval officer, submariner, teacher, and lawyer. He writes historical fiction with the backdrop of Canada’s armed forces and a newsletter, Forces With History, which comes out every two weeks.
Robert was born in Vancouver and lives in BC. He takes great pride in contributing to Canadians’ knowledge of their military heritage, and is happy to do speaking engagements on related topics.
Book - Soldier Of The Horse
Winner of the Gold Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction at the 2012 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards.
Book - Terror On The Alert
Winner of the Silver Medal for Military/Wartime Fiction at the 2015 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards
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Episode 314 - Morgan Christie - Boolean Logic - Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer
Powerful and Lyrical Essays from a New and Noteworthy Poet and Fiction Writer
Morgan Christie's book is in conversation with various themes including race, gender inequity, socioeconomic disparities, and others as questions regarding how experiences define us are viewed through a BOOLEAN LOGIC lens, where sums do not always equal their parts. These essays intertwine sport, family, and community and other aspects that assist in shaping identities through lineage and the lessons we take from them.
Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Family & Relationships. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.
About the Author
Morgan Christie's essays, stories, and poems have appeared in Room, Callaloo, The Hawai'i Review, Sport Literate, and elsewhere. Her first chapbook, Variations on a Lobster's Tale, was the winner of the 2017 Alexander Posey Chapbook Prize, and her first full-length short story manuscript, These Bodies (Tolsun Books, 2020), was nominated for the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award in fiction.
Her most recent poetry chapbook, when they come (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is featured in the Forward Arts Foundation's National Poetry Day exhibit. She is the 2022 Arc Poetry Poem of the Year Prize recipient, and her collection People Without Wings (Black Sunflowers Press, 2021) is the winner of the 2022 Digging Chapbook Series Prize. Her new short story collection, Boolean Logic, is the winner of the 2023 Howling Bird Press Nonfiction Prize. Her novella Liddle Deaths (Stillhouse Press) is due out in 2024. Christie currently splits her time between North Carolina and Toronto.
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https://www.morganchristiewrites.com/
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Episode 313 - Rebecca Bratspies - Naming Gotham, The Villains, Rogues & Heroes Behind New York's Place Names
Naming Gotham: The Villains, Rogues & Heroes Behind New York's Place Names
The Van Wyck, the Major Deegan, the Jackie Robinson, the Hutch, the Merritt, FDR Drive, or the Henry Hudson...you might drive them regularly, without really noticing that those road names are, well, names. But, who were these people? New York City's many roads, bridges, neighborhoods and institutions bear the names of a colorful assortment of people from key periods in the city's history. Learning about the people iconic Gotham landmarks are named for is a unique window into the history of the greatest city in the world. Author Rebecca Bratspies takes readers on a place-based, intimate, historical journey on a human scale.
About the authorRebecca Bratspies lives with her cats, teenager and husband in Astoria Queens. When not geeking out about New York City history, Rebecca is a professor at CUNY School of Law. A scholar of environmental justice and human rights, Rebecca has written scores of law review articles; five books (including Naming Gotham: the Villains, Rogues, and Heroes Behind New York Place Names); and three environmental justice comic books (with Charlie LaGreca Velasco). She serves on NYC’s Environmental Justice Advisory Board and EPA’s Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee and is a scholar with the Center for Progressive Reform and a member of the NYC Bar Environmental Committee. ABA-SEER honored her work with its Commitment to Diversity and Justice Award.
You can follow her on Twitter and IG at @RBratspies and Mastodon at @RBratspies@Mastodon.social
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EPISODE 312 - Leah Brown - The Fantastical World Building of The Chronicles of the Hidden Realms
Leah Ann Brown grew up in beautiful Southern Oregon, where her love for nature and fantasy was first ignited. As a young girl she spent hours outside playing make believe. This is where she first learned to love fantasy, along with the books and stories shared by her mother and grandmother throughout her life. With such creative encouragement from family, she drew her first picture book in first grade. From there her love for imagining and storytelling only grew stronger, until one day she decided to make her dreams a reality and began her storytelling journey to be published.
One of her passions is to see the next generation walk in the fullness and greatness of who they were created to be and know that obstacles can be overcome with hard work. As a young girl she struggled with reading because of dyslexia. But she didn’t let a label and challenge hold her back. She continued to work hard through school and her learning challenges, sometimes having to work harder than others.
Throughout life she had to overcome fears of not being good enough, and not give up on her dreams. She graduated at the top of her class in high school and went on to get her Pharmacy tech. license and massage license. In college she loved creative writing but still let fear hold her back from taking the first steps in writing a book. Could someone with dyslexia write a book? The stories as a young girl showed characters overcoming obstacles, so why couldn’t she.
Chronicles of the Hidden Realms: Return of the Light
An unknown past reveals a destiny long foretold.
Peter and Isabella Toth thought they were like any ordinary fourteen or twelve-year-old living in Garavelle, until they encounter Light Snatchers in the woods, and their world is flipped upside down. Imagine their surprise learning they are from another realm, the Land of Light, and are being hunted by the Dark Lord Gog who cursed their homeland long ago.
Together, this brother and sister, along with their friend Sarah, are forced into a perilous journey where a destiny calls them to return the light back to their kingdom. They must discover courage as they venture through a magical realm to find the Light Spark and break the evil curse plaguing the Land of Light. But unforeseen obstacles arise as Lord Gog sends dragons, wolves, Nicromines, and Light Snatchers to hunt them down.
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EPISODE 311 - Boo Trundle - The Daughter Ship - A Prcess Novel with Deep Meaning
BOO TRUNDLE is a writer, artist, and performer whose work has appeared across various platforms and publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and NPR’s The Moth. She has released three albums of original music with Big Deal Records. She lives in New Jersey. The Daughter Ship is her first novel.
The Book: About The Daughter Ship
This irreverent debut delivers a headlong human comedy of trauma and triumph, narrated by the concealed inner selves of a woman on the brink: Katherine, a lost creative soul and suburban mother of two, who has struggled into her forties with the urge to self-harm.
Katherine, an attentive mother to her teenagers, comfortably married to her strapping provider of a husband, longs to overcome her dark thoughts and intermittent fears of sexual intimacy.
This brisk, mesmerizing version of her life is told in alternating short chapters by Truitt, Star, and Smooshed Bug—her inner children, each with their particular strategy for coping with Katherine’s past at the hands of a hopeless mother and a terrifying, seductive father. Several of her female ancestors, Confederate widows and their daughters, who’ve imposed a legacy of racism and damage on her bloodline, also join the telling.
The assembled ghosts and contenders for Katherine’s ear are gathered in a rusting WWII submarine off the coast of Virginia Beach where the truth of her life is, quite literally, submerged. Will they surface with it? Will they protect her from it, or deliver it to her?
This unforgettable chorus of charming selves, battling over Katherine’s wellbeing, is unified by their hope for her future, as they collaborate to shape a personal narrative like no other we’ve experienced in fiction.
“Wild as stormy water, turbulent as a human heart, The Daughter Ship is a novel like none you’ve ever read before. It tracks the scattered parts of one woman as she fractures and finds herself over her lifetime. Boo Trundle is a deep, dark, far-seeing storyteller, who has written a wholly original and unforgettable debut.” —Julia Phillips, author of Disappearing Earth (National Book Award Finalist)
“This is a stunningly original, compulsively readable, darkly funny, and profoundly moving novel about the emotional cargo women carry in our minds and bodies, and how healing is possible—even from our deepest, darkest secrets.” —Leigh Stein, author of Self Care
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EPISODE 310 - Sarah Polyakov - Living In Fearless Faith - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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**EPISODE 309 - Jacqueline Suskin - Poet and Educator - Poem Busking, A Year In Practice
JACQUELINE SUSKIN** IS A POET AND EDUCATOR WHO HAS BEEN TEACHING WORKSHOPS, WRITING BOOKS, HOSTING RETREATS AND CREATING SPONTANEOUS POETRY AROUND THE WORLD SINCE 2009.
Suskin is the author of eight books:
The Collected (Publication Studio, 2010), Go Ahead & Like It (Ten Speed Press, 2014), The Edge of The Continent Volume One (Rare Bird, 2018), The Edge of The Continent Volume Two (Rare Bird, 2019), Help in the Dark Season (Write Bloody, 2019), The Edge of The Continent Volume Three (Rare Bird, 2020), Every Day is a Poem (Sounds True, 2020), and A Year in Practice (Sounds True, December 2023).
With her project Poem Store, she has composed over forty thousand improvisational poems for patrons who chose a topic in exchange for a unique verse. Her work has been featured in New York Times, T Magazine, Los Angeles Times, The Atlantic, and various other publications. As the Artist in Residence at Folklife Farm from 2019-2021, Suskin founded a retreat program and continues to host artists from around the world. She lives in Detroit where she works with InsideOut Literary Arts bringing nature poetry into urban classrooms with her Poem Forest curriculum.
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EPISODE 308 - Sara Johnson - Crime Series, New Zealand and How Your Teeth Can Lead You Home
Sara E. Johnson is a mystery writer who spent nine months exploring wondrous New Zealand. Everywhere she snooped, there was a mystery that needed writing. The Bone Riddle, Sara’s fourth novel in the Alexa Glock Forensic Mysteries, was published in June, 2023. The first three mysteries in the series are, in order of publication, Molten Mud Murder, The Bones Remember, and The Bone Track. Sara’s publisher is Poisoned Pen Press/Sourcebooks.
Sara also writes articles for magazines. Most recently, she introduced readers of The Strand magazine to five New Zealand-based mystery writers. Shark cage diving, featured in her second book The Bones Remember, is the topic of her article in the CrimeReads website. Take a look at Adventures in Shark Cage Diving!
She has a BA in Journalism and an MA in Education from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sara lives in Durham, North Carolina with her husband. Sara is a graduate of the Durham Citizen Police Academy. She is the past President of Triangle Sisters in Crime and a member of the North Carolina Writers’ Network.
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EPISODE 307 - Jason Pchajek - Canadian Author - A Climate Fiction Novel - Bounty
It's strange. I've spent years writing about other people, whether it be in my work as an academic, writing about the experiences of gamblers, my life as a sports reporter and editor at a small newspaper, writing about the lives and work of athletes and those around them, or even my fiction writing career, creating people and worlds from whole cloth. Almost a decade spending my time writing about people, but writing about myself remains elusive.
Jason Pchajek (Pay-Jack) is a Canadian author from Winnipeg, Manitoba. With a deep interest in climate, biotechnology, human enhancement, inequality, and the future of our species, delving into the realm of "Cli-fi" with his debut novel Bounty was a natural first step in his writing career.
Receiving his Master's degree in Sociology from the University of Manitoba in 2020, Jason has spent much of the last decade studying a variety of topics, while gaining experience working as an academic, journalist, radio host, hockey play-by-play announcer, and corporate researcher.
When not working on his next project, Jason spends his time reading, playing video games, or prepping for his next DnD session. He is a member of the Manitoba Writer's Guild, a voter for the Aurora Awards, staff writer for the UWPG Film Festival, and published academic.
You can follow Jason on Twitter at @JasonPchajek and Instagram at @JasonPchajek. He regularly posts news updates, articles, and review to the site blog, and you can sign up to never miss a post!
What I do know for certain, though, is this: My entire life I've wanted to be an author.
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EPISODE 306 - Gerry Wilson - That Pinson Girl - Historical Fiction and a class on Writing Your Story
A seventh generation Mississippian, Gerry Wilson grew up in the red clay hills of the north. Her novel, THAT PINSON GIRL, is forthcoming from Regal House Publishing February 6, 2024. Her debut short fiction collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories (Press 53 2015), was nominated for the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Fiction Award. A story, “Life Line,” was a finalist in december magazine’s Curt Johnson Prose Award for Fiction and was published in december in the spring of 2023. Her short fiction has been published in numerous other journals.
Gerry has a new Substack publication, “Stories I’m Old Enough to Tell,” where she writes about her journey to publication and reveals tidbits about That Pinson Girl you won’t find anywhere else!
A literary novel that resonates with issues of race and class, THAT PINSON GIRL pits a white teenage mother and a biracial sharecropper against prejudice and hatred in Mississippi during World War I.
“That Pinson Girl is a beautiful novel about the destructive power of dark secrets. Gerry Wilson’s prose shines as she breathes life into her characters and into the north Mississippi landscape.” — Tiffany Quay Tyson, award-winning author of The Past is Never and Three Rivers
“Devastating and beautifully written, Gerry Wilson’s That Pinson Girl is at once a heart-rending tragedy and a testament to the indomitable human spirit.”— Clifford Garstang, author of Oliver’s Travels and The Shaman of Turtle Valley.
“In Gerry Wilson’s gripping debut novel, 1918 in North Mississippi becomes tangible again; here are the red hills, the suck of winter mud, the scrabble of subsistence living, and the intricately crossed lines of race and kin.” — Katy Simpson Smith, author of The Everlasting, Free Men, The Story of Land and Sea.
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EPISODE 305 - Keri Cooper - Mental Health Uncensored for Adults and Youth - Take Real Steps Forward
In this episode Keri Cooper, author of “Mental Health Uncensored: 10 Foundations Every Parent Needs to Know” tells us about her book and how it helps people build a foundation for mental health. She also shares with us how she took a private practice and converted it into a thriving business.
Many teens today lack the coping skills that are necessary to address life’s ups and downs. They often feel disconnected emotionally, and are unable to handle stress, peer and relationship issues, or the school, college, or work environment.
When a teen is struggling with academics, they receive tutoring or support to develop the skills they need to succeed. Emotional health is no different. Teens need tools to help them regulate their emotions, develop connections with others, and create a healthy, well-rounded lifestyle.
I take an integrated, solution-focused approach to working with adolescents and young adults who are dealing with stress, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. I treat the whole person, not just their symptoms, with the goal of giving them the tools they need to manage whatever comes their way – now and for the rest of their lives.
Holding multiple state licenses, I work in-person with local clients in my Ramsey office, as well as remotely with clients outside of the Bergen County, New Jersey area, and those located in Pennsylvania, Florida, and South Carolina.
The Book: Mental Health Uncensored: 10 Foundations Every Parent Needs to Know
A Must-Read Book for the Parents of Tweens and Teens
Looking to Raise a Mentally Strong Young Adult.
- Finding it difficult to deal with life’s ups and downs
- Feeling disconnected emotionally
- Unable to effectively handle stress or relationship issues
- Struggling with school, college, or work environment
You’ll want to read my new book Mental Health Uncensored: 10 Foundations Every Parent Needs to Know. Over the course of my 20 year career in working with tweens and teens, I’ve recognized that you can’t have good mental health without good physical health. In this book, I explore why traditional mental health advice isn’t working and share 10 physical and mental strategies that do
Web: https://kericooperholistictherapy.com/
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Thank you for your support financially and for listening! We pulled our end of the year list of countries that listen to this show and wanted to share this info just with you!
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EPISODE 304 - E. Vernon F. Glenn - Let Life Stick To You, From Lawyer to Author, Share Your Story
E. Vernon F. Glenn is a trial lawyer, crime writer, and founder of Cooper River Books. Knowing he was in it for the long haul while embarking on his writing journey, he decided to create an imprint of his own to carry his work. Cooper River Books came to him while hiking up the iconic LowCountry ‘mountain’, the Ravenel Bridge and the views are just some of the best around.
A native Tar Heel, Glenn was educated not only at Choate, UNC-Chapel Hill, and Wake Forest University School of Law, but also by digging deep ditches, running a jackhammer, and hauling block and bricks every summer to the tune of starting at 60 cents an hour. Glenn has been a practicing litigator for more than 40 years and adores the courtroom, as well as Southern people. He does not like fakes, frauds, pedants, poseurs, and better-thans. Comfortable in the cocoons of luxury and in the back alleys of slums, he has never started a fight, but has finished plenty. Glenn has scouted and handicapped football and basketball games, has testified before Congress, and has traveled all about. This story has been flailing about in his mind for years, so one day about a year ago, he sat down and began to write it. Like becoming a trial lawyer, it just spontaneously poured out. He thinks there is much more to say. Glenn now lives in Charleston, South Carolina, and too has a perch in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, in the beautiful old R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company Headquarters Building. Also, it would be fair to say that he finds his way back to Chapel Hill on a happy and regular basis. He stays busy.
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EPISODE 303 - KT Carlisle - From the Bucolic Vermont, From Her First Pen to Her Murder Mystery Trilogy
When the Williamsburg Police Department arrives at Catheryn "Cat" Clark's house on the night of Friday, May 13th to discover her drunk and covered in blood, even she struggles to believe in her own innocence. After all, few people had better reason to want Elaine Reid dead than the woman whose husband she stole after thirty years of friendship.
But as the alcohol-induced fog begins to fade, strange questions surrounding the night's events start to emerge. Who else was at the house the night that Elaine was murdered? Why can't Cat remember anything more than the argument that transpired in the darkened confines of her kitchen? And what might a neighbor's suicide from her college years have to do with proving Cat's innocence? As Cat fights to piece together the puzzle of what happened, Detective Rachel McGowen's fifteen-year hunt for an elusive killer could hold all the answers.
Reasonable is the first in a three-part series that explores just how far one might go to clear their name and protect their loved ones. A fast-paced thrill ride packed with suspense, this enthralling tale of two women’s determination will keep you guessing until the very end.
About the Author
K.T. Carlisle is the pseudonym for a writer in rural Vermont. Since early childhood, Carlisle has dedicated her life to the written word. Earning her B.A. in Writing Arts with a concentration in Creative Writing in 2015 from Rowan University, Carlisle received the Excellence in Writing Arts Award from the university, an honor reserved for students who exhibit exceptional skill as a writer and teacher of writing.
When she is not busy working on her next novel, Carlisle spends her days enjoying all the natural beauty that the Green Mountain State has to offer alongside her incredible husband, four crazy dogs, and flock of chickens.
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EPISODE 302 - Ross Hightower and Deb Heim - Partners and Co-Authors - How To Write A Great Promo Hook, Padverb, Fantasy Series
Somehow, after spending most of his life in the south, Ross found himself living in Milwaukee and loving it. One cold, snowy morning, not too long ago, he woke with a story stuck in his head. That wasn’t unusual, but what happened next was unprecedented. He wrote it down. That small story grew into his first novel, Spirit Sight.
While he contemplated the second book in the Spirit Song trilogy, he started a prequel with his partner of 35 years, Deb. That resulted in Argren Blue which appeared in May 2023.
Some might wonder why he took so long to find his calling in life, but he’s just grateful he did.
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EPISODE 301 - Vicki Jay O'Grady Longo - Dragons, Dreams and Dragonflies - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
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Loree Dittrich
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JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 300 - Dominick Domasky - Motivation Champs and Cre8tive Con - Share Your Unique Story
Dom returns again - this time to celebrate 300 episodes of Living The Next Chapter - we catch up with his Motivation Champs Group and the upcoming Cre8tive Con Chicago Conference coming in Feb 2024 - Share Your Unique Story and be inspired by a great check in with Dom
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EPISODE 299 - Meche Barba - Finding Your Why and Faith - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 298 - ML Sutton - The Knowledge of Faith - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 297 - Mary Ann Falletta - Domestic Violence Can Be Overcome Through Community - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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BONUS - Dave's Audiobook Selection for December - Hug Your Haters - How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers by Jay Baer
Do you have a hater? You write your book, post your podcast, jump on social media or YouTube - share a piece of yourself with the world only to be swarmed by hate and negative comments like bugs at dusk!
On the How To Podcast Series, a show where I teach and support people on their journey in starting their very own podcast (you should start a podcast as an author, you really should!) I shared an episode that has garnered over 50,000 listens - yes, I am shocked just as much as you are - in this epiosde I share how to deal with a hater! This episode has really struck a nerve, but in a good way! If you would like to hear the episode simply click here!
https://pod.link/1610039000/episode/094643199aa9c1d4de5fb8a3e446e07a
I love this book by Jay Baer, one of my favourite authors in this space, so I thought that I would share it with you!
Hug Your Haters - How to Embrace Complaints and Keep Your Customers
Technology has evaporated the barriers of complaint. With smartphones and always-on Internet access, consumers complain more often and across more channels, many of them public. This requires a completely new system for instantly finding, evaluating, and addressing these complaints.
Jay Baer and Edison Research conducted a landmark study of more than 2,000 consumers and found that not all complainers ("haters") are created equal. In fact, there are two vastly different categories of haters: Offstage Haters and Onstage Haters. The book includes The Hatrix, a detailed examination of the differences between these Offstage and Onstage haters. The book reveals:
- How, where, and why people complain (by demographic and by channel)
- How and when consumers expect a response when they complain
- The advocacy impact of answering (or ignoring) a customer
- Differences in complaint type and expectations by industry
Supported by dozens of interviews with large and small companies, social networks and review websites, psychiatrists, and legal experts, Hug Your Haters gives listeners a step-by-step process to magnify the impact of happy customer interactions and to minimize the impact of haters and complainers. Customers expect more from businesses than ever before, and the importance of real-time customer service has never been greater. Hug Your Haters explains this new reality and shows listeners how to embrace complaints and turn bad news into good.
https://www.amazon.com/Hug-Your-Haters-Jay-Baer-audiobook/dp/B01BVWUO4W/ref=sr_1_1?crid=GZVWZ287LPCJ&keywords=jay+baer+hug+your+haters&qid=1701971430&sprefix=jay+baer+hug+your+haters%2Caps%2C346&sr=8-1https://www.jaybaer.com/ ___http://livingthenextchapter.com/
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First off - your donation to this podcast is amazing! You will notice maybe that we don't include or interupt our episodes with commercials - we don't want to make you as a listener hit that skip button when commercials derail the conversation.
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EPISODE 296 - Maria Lehtman - Rise, Rise, Believe in Yourself - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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BONUS - Thank you for being there for our family and for my Mom
Over the past 10 - 12 days you have shown up for our family in a very meaningful way. Past guests, podcast friends and listeners alike have been sending toughts, prayers, love and encouraging words that I have been sharing with my family and with my Mom. It has been a very difficult few days, but I wanted to release a short epiosde to thank all of you for your kindness.
When I started a podcast I wasn't totally prepared for the impact of shared voices via the internet - the connections made, the new friendships and the great conversations that have happened with and without a microphone. For those that have been following these past few days thank you, and for those that might be here for the very first time, thank you for pressing play.
A podcast can be entertainment, a diversion or company - but for me as a podcast host, it has become deeper and far richer by having you as apart of this community. I am looking forward to more amazing conversations in the future, and Mom if you can still hear my podcast wherever you are, I hope you know that we are always thinking of you.
On behalf of my Mom Sharon, our immediate and extended family - to you, thank you.
Dave
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Sharon Winona
1945 - 2023
It is with heavy hearts that we announce the peaceful passing of Sharon, December 2 at Niagara Health St. Catharines site, aged 78.
Sharon was born in Temiskaming Shores to Gibson and Muriel Lowe on May 3, 1945.
The family would like to sincerely thank the Critical Care team at Niagara Health for their excellent care and compassion.
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EPISDOE 295 - Kathleen Dutton - Becomes a Writer - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
https://www.ourmissionhope.com/
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EPISODE 294 - Karen Ortega - I Can Buy My Own Flowers - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
https://www.ourmissionhope.com/
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EPISODE 293 - Elizabeth R Urabe - Projection Makes Perception, Poetry, Art and Faith
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
https://www.ourmissionhope.com/
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EPISODE 292 - Dr. JoAnne White - Our Words and Thoughts Have Energy
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
https://www.ourmissionhope.com/
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EPISODE 291 - Dobby Webb - Miracles of Faith - Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 290 - Debbie Griffiths - Finding Faith When Your Loved One Struggles with Bad Choices
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 289 - Brad Burchnell - Faith Challenged and Restored
Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph - Brad Burchnell - Faith Challenged and Restored
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 288 - Babien Avila - When Your First Born Dies After Thirty Minutes and Trying To Find Faith In Loss
Mission Hope, Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph - Babien Avila - When Your First Born Dies After Thirty Minutes and Trying To Find Faith In Loss
Mission Hope
Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
https://www.ourmissionhope.com/
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EPISODE 287 - Char Murphy - Thoughts From The Organizer of The Mission Hope Series
Mission Hope - Inspirational Stories of Faith and Triumph
Life’s many upheavals, sharp curves, twists and turns, the challenging circumstances coming right at you are non-stop. The inner wars within are outside your control and feel overwhelming; you feel alone, and the seemingly endless battles rage on. You feel like you have lost all hope and faith, questioning, Why me? Why now? How can I handle another blow? The answers you’re seeking are in this collection of 20 uplifting stories in this book, right here in your hands. Within its golden pages, from the deep confines of their hearts and souls, these extraordinary authors have opened up and are here to assist you in navigating the deep, daunting, dark waters you are facing.
Each story is unique in its experience but similar in the fact that through everything presented to them in life, they found the way back to success, peace, and joy through hope and faith. They turned tragedy into tranquility once again. Now, they are here to empower you to shift from what once was fear and failure into the future of your dreams. They offer as a gift to you the freedom to choose your destiny. Now, it’s time to turn the key and walk through the doors.
WE ARE PLEASED TO INTRODUCE OUR FABULOUS AUTHORS:
Ali Anani Ph.D
Blondie Rebecca Amelia
Babien Avila
Meche Barba
Jennifer Bassett
Brad Burchnell
Loree Dittrich
Kathleen Dutton
JK Ellis
Mary Ann Falletta
Deborah A. Griffiths
Maria Lehtman
Vicki J. O’Grady Longo
Karen Ortega
Sarah Polyakov
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Elizabeth R. Urabe
Dobby Webb
Dr. Jo Anne White
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EPISODE 286 - Sian Hill - Row Boats and Submarines, How Your Thoughts Become Things
I help women to transform their thinking, release limitations and become an impactful coach through my Accredited NLP, Time Line Therapy and Hypnotherapy Certification programmes
Growing up, I hated being me! That lack of self-love grew more and more over the years and by my mid-twenties, I’d hit the self-sabotage button that many times that life was pretty rubbish. I'd managed to get myself into a lot of debt, a relationship that I realise now was abusive in many ways and my health was pretty poor. The funny thing was that looking in from the outside, you would never have known. I was good at putting a smile on my face and pretending I had it together.
The truth was that I felt like I was drowning. I was sure that everyone else knew what they were doing, they’d had lessons in school about life that I’d missed. I spent what should’ve been my ‘fun’ years, having no fun at all! I went from job to job doing work that I found completely unfulfilling whilst racking up the credit cards, the whole time thinking that there has to be more to life.
I’m so thankful that in my mid-twenties, my Mum gave me a book, 'The Secret'. This book introduced a new way of thinking; a way that said I was able to create my reality. Up to that point, life had just happened to me...I was ready to change. I became obsessed and read tonnes of books about the law of attraction, manifestation and creating your reality, I went to seminars, short courses and I watched everything I could find on YouTube, but nothing much changed.
The issue was, I was still me!
Sian is the author of the book “Activate Your RAS - The Art and Science of Creating Your Reality from The Inside Out,” and host of the Vibrant Mind Vibrant Life podcast. As an Internationally Certified Trainer of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy, Hypnotherapy and Breakthrough Coach, she works both 1-1 with clients and training people to become accredited coaches. She teaches people to re-programme their unconscious mind, rewire old belief systems and break through lifelong mental and emotional blocks so they can create a life they love.
Here's my linktree which has the links to my website, programmes etc.
https://linktr.ee/iamsianhill
https://www.iamsianhill.com/
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EPISODE 285 - Adrian Smude - Writing a Book Around Your Business, Buying Mobile Homes and Branding
Adrian started his real estate career in 2002. He attributes much of his success to his passion for lifelong learning, which has led him to continue education courses and fostered relationships with respected mentors. He implemented what he learned, took action, and now has a successful business that fits his personality and lifestyle.
Through sharing his ideas, success, and failures Adrian hopes to inspire YOU to take action and create a life pursuant to your passions! Although Adrian has invested in notes, single family homes, mobile homes in parks, and wholesaled properties, Adrian settled in the niche of Mobile Homes with land. He has also created a great system to allow him to live his vision of being geographically free!
Adrian is passionate about teaching to ensure the knowledge from his mentors is passed on. He also wants everyone to have the life they dream of. Adrian’s goals are to educate and inspire you to take ACTION!
How To Buy Mobile Homes – Best Selling Book
Does the idea of investing in Mobile Homes intrigue or overwhelm you?
In this book, you’ll learn the steps to be successful as you follow my journey from an evicted tenant to a profitable Mobile Home investor, allowing my wife to retire at 29 years old.
If you want to confidently make a great return investing in mobile homes “with the dirt” this is the guide for you.
- Bust 6 common myths
- My best lead source for Mobile Homes
- The secrets to financing Mobile Homes of an age
- Short cut your success by learning from my mistakes
- What you need to know to confidently inspect a mobile home
By taking action on the advice in this “Best Selling” book you’ll have cashflow in your bank!Don’t waste time and money guessing or making simple mistakes, everything you need to take advantage of the mobile home market is inside of How To Buy Mobile Homes.
https://www.lifestyle-rei.com/
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EPISODE 284 - Andrew Zimba - Tell a Better Story, World Building From a Multi-View
Andrew Zimba is a lifelong storyteller. An avid historian, he grew up reading stories of kings and kingdoms as well as tales of myth and magic. A native Minnesotan, he holds degrees from the University of Minnesota and also studied in Poland. Andrew and his wife currently reside in Texas.
Follow on Instagram / Twitter @ardalencor
or contact Andrew at ardalencor@gmail.com
I wanted to write a novel for many, many years. Even with my passion for history, I struggled to get beyond even a few pages in writing a historical fiction novel. With historical fiction, I felt like any character I created would just be inserted into a tale that had already been richly told.
I needed the challenge of telling a new tale – one full of its own wondrous, brave, and devious characters.
Envisioning a new place … Ardalencor … recharged my creativity and unleashed the freedom of possibility. I hope you enjoy In Times of War: A Tale of Ardalencor.
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EPISODE 283 - Nutan Rubinson - Host of the Acknowledgements Podcast - A Truly Unique Author Podcast
We introduce you to another great Author Podcast - ever wonder about the story behind the list of names an author includes in their acknowledgements? How did this group of people impact the author to the point of receiving credits in the book? Join us as we chat with Nutan about her show and learn about another great podcast supporting the author community!
https://www.theacknowledgments.com/
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EPISODE 282 - Bryan Mitchell - Stay on the Path, Avoid the Shiny Things And The Root of The Problem
The hardest thing I’ve ever done is share a piece of my soul with others. It makes me feel vulnerable. Like a thief who just got spotted by the police with his pants down. Can’t run away now. Gotta face whatever judgement awaits. That’s how I feel when I share my stories. I cringe like a baby tasting a lemon and look at the reader all weird, hoping they want more.
While I cringe, eye twitching, neck straining, there’s one thing that holds me together and that is the truth. Like me. Love me. Hate me. It’s not my decision. The important thing is the olive branch that I’ve extended. I’m trying to connect with you and honored you’re making the effort to hear me out. This is what story telling is. It’s who we are. It’s how we connect and grow together.
If you happen to look up at me while reading and see a ghastly face trembling like Hulk Hogan waking up from a bearhug, just know, I’m happy you gave me the opportunity, pal, and I encourage you to pass along the olive branch to others in your life because we all need to make ourselves vulnerable to be real. We’ve all written terrible prose. We’ve all fallen short of Shakespeare. Forgive yourself and others for those wordy sentences and write the good write.
Sorry, I can’t end with that. Let’s simmer it down a little. I have a short story you can read for free if you sign up for my newsletter. It is called No Place Like Home. My debut novel, Infernal Fall, will be out in October of 2022. All subscribers will get updates on that and more. Hope you stick around. Say Hello if you do.
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EPISODE 281 - Dr. Laurie Weiss - Author With Forty Years Practicing Psychotherapy and Coaching
After over 40 years practicing psychotherapy and coaching, I had no intention of starting a new phase of my career. In fact, before a colleague used Logosynthesis to end my overreaction to loud events in just a few minutes, while standing in a parking lot, I was planning to retire, content with a long career as a relationship communication expert.
My husband/business partner and I were so intrigued with this recently discovered tool that we just had to learn more. We were thrilled when we found we could help our clients make important life changes in a fraction of the time, and with a fracti
on of the pain ordinarily associated with psychotherapy.
Now, ten years later, we are both Certified Logosynthesis Trainers and Master Practitioners. And now, in addition to a 7-book Secrets of Happy Relationships Series, and several very popular books on psychotherapy, codependency and personal growth, I can offer you two exciting books on Logosynthesis® for rapid anxiety relief using only words.
My first major book, Recovery from Codependency, co-authored with my husband, Jonathan B. Weiss, Ph.D., stated:
“This book is written to help end the cycle of child abuse, in which the abused child grows into an Adult Child who passes the abuse to his own children. Our purpose is to help create a world in which each child is treated with love, honor, respect and appropriate limits.”
I would now add that all my work is directed toward creating a world where each person is treated that way.
That means helping as many adults as possible heal from their childhood wounds. Adults who experience joy instead of pain can avoid passing on the wounds they experienced when they were small to anyone else. My hope is to contribute to having safety and appropriate nurturing for all of us.
My professional background also includes a Ph.D. and certification as a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst, International Transactional Analysis Association and Master Certified Coach, International Coach Federation. My work has been translated into German, Chinese, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic and possibly Russian.
Personally, my personal life has been intertwined with my professional life since I started working with my husband in 1970. We have 2 children and 5 grandchildren. Married in 1960, we have traveled extensively, teaching (and playing) in 13 different countries
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EPISODE 280 - Kyle Jetsel - The Loss of A Spouse, Raising Kids With Autism and Measuring the COSTIn the heart of adversity, our guest today, Kyle Jetsel, discovered that life's most formidable challenges could be transformed into profound opportunities for growth.
Growing up in a tough neighborhood Kyle found himself in a world where the line between safety and chaos was razor-thin.
In this episode, Kyle takes us on a deeply personal journey, sharing how he navigated the turbulent seas of his youth.
Kyle faced yet another colossal test of faith when his beloved wife of 30 years, a source of love and strength, suddenly passed away. The impact of this loss was felt not only in his own life but also within the lives of their six children, one of whom has a severely aggressive form of autism.
It was in these darkest hours that Kyle leaned into God's strength like never before. He turned to a simple yet powerful strategy that helped him find his way back to hope and healing, all while knowing that God's grace was the cornerstone of his journey.
Get ready to be deeply moved by Kyle's remarkable journey of faith and resilience, proving that we are never alone when we lean on God's strength and embrace His mysterious, undeserved grace. This episode is a testament to the human spirit's ability to rise above adversity.
To download your free copy of his book "Facing My Biggest Fear. 180 Days of Surviving and Thriving After the Death of My Beloved Shelly" and the worksheet he shares, check the comments for the link.
You may reach Kyle at https://www.youtube.com/@drivenautismdad187
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EPISODE 279 - JF Hughes - Author of the Tragic Romance Novel - The Gardens of Byzantium
The Book:
The Gardens of ByzantiumThe year is 622 A.D., and the Persian and Byzantine empires have been fighting a war in the deserts since before she was born...
Asana's life has been one of turmoil and change. Every year found her uprooted and brought to another foreign land to live an austere life in a garrison with her father, an officer in the Persian Army. But the middle of a war is no place for such a gentle soul.
Before long, she is swept away from her family and forced to flee on the back of her beloved horse. Fate leads her into the hands of a handsome and mysterious Roman soldier who sequesters her in a beautiful palace in the heart of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire.
She begins to fall for him, and at last it seems as though she may have found an oasis of happiness in her war-torn world. That is, until news of a Persian army marching toward the city upends her life again, setting in motion an unstoppable chain of events that bring the story to its breathtaking and tragic conclusion...
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EPISODE 278 - Lori Ann Wood - How An Incurable Heart Failure Created a Divine Detour
My heart journey began in November 2015: the physical part on November 27, the spiritual part three weeks earlier. On November 6, around 10:00 pm on a stretch of highway a few hours from my home, I prayed specifically for God to make my life matter in His Kingdom and pledged that I would do anything to that end. Immediately, apprehensive tears streamed down my face as I realized the weight of that promise.
Less than a month later, I almost died from heart failure from an unknown cause: severe idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy. I soon learned I had an EF of 8% and spent 14 days in the hospital, most of it in ICU, as doctors tried to save my life. All of this despite having no risk factors, no family history, low blood pressure, low cholesterol levels, and a recent medical evaluation declaring that I had less than 3% chance of ever developing heart disease. I was emergency flighted to Cleveland Clinic and became their most critical patient for 16 months. During that time I wore a Life Vest external defibrillator, carefully titrated my meds to maximum dosages, and eliminated sodium from my diet. I was eventually implanted with a Biventricular CRT-D, a combination pacemaker/internal defibrillator.
Meanwhile, thousands of people prayed for me around the clock despite a grim prognosis and sympathetic tears from every doctor we encountered. Some would say nothing much happened for many, many months, but the miracle was that I survived. Peace enveloped my husband and I, and we held on tight and trusted. Against all medical odds, my EF was restored on March 27, 2017.
I don’t want to mislead you into thinking my journey is over, that the story is fully written. I have had setbacks since, physically, and even spiritually. But God showed up countless times throughout the journey and continues to walk through this with me, as I put my today and tomorrow in His tender, merciful hands, and wait for what is next. I trust in God as a loving father. If He chooses to normalize my heart and grant me years into old age, then may He receive all praise and glory. If God has a different story that He is writing, please pray I can endure that journey with the grace and peace that is only experienced through the Spirit of God. Thank you for caring enough to join me in this
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EPISODE 277 - Lynne Golodner - From Journalist, Podcaster and Now Writing a Novel A Year For The Rest of Your LifeWhen Lynne Golodner was a child, she carried around a corduroy-covered journal and filled the pages with stories, poems, and skits. Writing has always been her way of making sense of the world, of seeing the beauty in ordinary moments. She keeps that journal on a shelf behind her desk now to remind her to stay true to the person she’s always been.
Lynne spent 15 years as a journalist in New York, Washington, D.C., and Detroit. She earned an MFA in Writing from Goddard College, and she has taught writing in universities and around the world for decades. In 2007, she pivoted from journalist to marketing entrepreneur when she created Your People LLC. Just before the pandemic, she pivoted once again, to return to her writing roots and focus on writing books and teaching writing.
In the years since, Lynne has completed her first novel, WOMAN OF VALOR, which debuts September 26, 2023. This is Lynne’s ninth published book. She also founded SCOTIA ROAD BOOKS, an independent publishing imprint for women over 40 with strong voices that need to be heard.
Lynne spends every morning writing, and devotes afternoons to teaching and working with clients. She helps writers build their author brands and hone their craft through Developmental Editing and Book Coaching, Author Brand Marketing Mastermind, The Writers Community and Writing Coaching.
Subscribe to my Lynne’s Substack for writing tips, prompts, advice and opportunities!
On the Make Meaning Podcast, which Lynne launched in 2018, she interviews authors and people in publishing.
Lynne is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Goddard College, and she earned a Certificate in Entrepreneurship from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program at Wayne State University. The mother of four young adults, she lives in Huntington Woods, Michigan with her husband Dan.
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EPISODE 276 - JD McCabe - A shockingly true memoir, psychological thriller, and an unbelievable journey into one man’s nightmare.
Book: The Third Gift: My Dance With The Devil (And Her Mother)
J.D. Danny McCabe maintained a loving relationship with his wife for nearly twenty years before the underpinnings of their marriage, family, and world began to crumble. Their foundation had always been rooted in the mantra that trust is the bedrock of a healthy relationship. Indeed, Erin had always claimed that things wouldn’t — couldn’t — work without trust.
But one day, for reasons Danny could not fathom, Erin became suspicious of his every move. Phone calls, text messages, and work emails were manufactured into proof of infidelity, drug addiction, and a network of lies.
She enlisted her mother in her efforts, and together they forged the words of family, trust and honesty into a metaphorical hammer and beat him into the ground. Their accusations accumulated, twisting reality, and eventually resulting in Danny s involuntary hospitalization.
Danny was pushed to the edge and was damn near ready to jump. Then, God intervened. Erin s shocking revelation, her Third Gift, lit the blind spots in his marriage that Danny had never been able to reconcile.
https://thirdgift.com/
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EPISODE 275 - Mike ML Sutton - An Anthology from the heart - for Him, for Her and for Them - The Loss of a Spouse
Who is your biggest influence and why?
I cannot honestly say that I have a single influence. The influence on my life and living as I do has and is an accumulated influence from many sources; my grandparents and their examples; my love for my family; my faith in God, and my overwhelming thankfulness for all He has taken from and given back to me and my family; my church.
Tell us something we don’t know about you.
I am a simple person who doesn’t require much to be content. Just give me some space, easy instrumental music, a nearby shoreline, and a project that I can go to work on, preferably one using my hands and mind, then stand back. I love to work in my yard, read, and collect rocks.
Even to your old age, I am He, and even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.
What was your favorite book as a child? What is your favorite activity to do with the family?
I didn’t have one; we were not well off, but my grandmother was a schoolteacher, so she would bring the old set of encyclopedias to us when she received new, and I read them again and again as you might a novel. Now, as an adult, I enjoy reading the Clive Cussler Series of books.
Are you working on any other projects?
I am. Currently; I am finishing up my second book, an anthology of poems and stories of the yearning and sadness of a broken heart, the gratitude of a thankful and loving heart, fond memories being brought to life, everyday scenes, and thought-provoking observations, which I hope like this book, Mission Hope, will bring hope, enlightenment, and joy to those who read it by healing broken hearts and opening the eyes and hearts of the readers to see with compassion and gratitude, all that God has so richly blessed us with.
Where can we get in touch with you?
Individuals may reach me through private messenger on Facebook, LinkedIn or by emailing me at pearlruby9742@gmail.com
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EPISODE 274 - Howard Bell - Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy has led to a Yielded Life
Howard Bell
Howard Bell has lived life sharing the message that physical and emotional limitations do not have to determine identity or purpose. Instead, I have personally developed the lifestyle and belief that our identity and purpose, if well cultivated, can unlock an amazing destiny.
At the age of one, Howard was diagnosed with Infantile Spinal Muscular Atrophy. The prognosis was fatal. Doctors told his parents he would probably not live beyond the age of five... at best into his early teens. As people of faith, Howard’s parents and family chose to treat him as “normal” and encouraged him to believe he had a divine purpose and that his identity rested in what he believed, not in what others said about him.
Now, more than four decades later, Howard has taken his life’s story around the world to help encourage and inspire others. Seeing others succeed, is what continues to fan the flames of purpose in his life that is unlocking the destiny in people everywhere.
Despite physical challenges, Howard has accomplished many professional and personal goals such as receiving a bachelor’s degree from ASU with highest honors. He also went on to receive a his doctorate. He has been appointed by governors and mayors to serve on various community and political boards. He has been a spokesperson for the Easter Seals Society. He has been the Vice President and Chief Operating Officer for various corporations. He is a published author and has been featured on TBN, 700 Club, and several radio programs throughout the United States. He also hosted the “More Than A Conqueror” radio program for four years.
Today, Howard travels and speaks to businesses, churches, institutions, schools and at various community organizations throughout the world. His mission is to reach the globe with the message that there are no limits for those who believe.
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EPISODE 273 - Dianne Burckhardt - Author, Podcaster, Storyteller and Thriving Inspiration
Dianne Burckhardt started her writing career as a journalist and on-air anchor for an international news service based in Wichita, KS. Since moving to Europe, she has been hard at work on Stephen Burckhardt's Blogs and social media management. The first novella from Dianne is slated to be released in 2023. In the meantime, Dianne will be producing and narrating the audiobooks for Stephen's Into the West Saga Serial.
https://pod.link/1613370664 - Book Banter with Dianne Burckhardt
Join award-winning, indie author, Dianne Burckhardt, as she chats with fellow authors and industry insiders around the world about their work, inspirations, greatest challenges, and triumphs. Writing is often the easy part, and the real work begins once the author writes, "The End." Dianne and her guests shed light on what it takes to be a successful author in today's markets whether as an indie author or traditionally published. Dianne's guests share their insights on their personal journeys to creating a successful writing career. They discuss everything from their writing process, common obstacles in publishing today, marketing, customer engagement, and resources that have helped them create engaging content, connect with their readers, and so much more! Wednesdays are better with a little good book banter . . . join us for chats that are entertaining, uplifting, and help you find new books to feed your soul!Be sure to check out the new companion magazine, Book Banter Magazine, currently available on BurckhardtBooks.comDianne Burckhardt is current publishing a historical fiction series, The Into the West Saga Serial under pen name Stephen Burckhardt. There are seven books in publication. The final installment, Into the West: Family Ties, was published September 19th, 2023 completing the serial.
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EPISODE 272 - Benecia Ponder - Inspiring Authors, Creative Slumps and Tips To Build a Story
Coaching Authors To Publish
Since 2006, I’ve been on a mission to help individuals just like you prosper with purpose. I am the best-selling author of six inspirational books of my own, and I’ve also helped my clients produce works that have generated more than $20M to build and grow their businesses and ministries.
Although writing, publishing and marketing books seems like second nature to me now, it has not always been this way.
I remember the moment I decided to write and self publish my first book. After receiving the inspiration and getting excited about the possibilities, I went into full-blown panic mode because I had NO IDEA what to do next. I spent a whole year paralyzed with the overwhelm and stress of it all before I finally reached out to a mentor for help.
Why did it take me so long to get help? Well…I thought I could do it by myself. After all, I was an attorney with a law degree, a business degree, and lots of success writing for my clients. Unfortunately, all of that experience and expertise didn’t stop the confusion when it came to writing and self publishing my own book.
It took some time for me to figure it out and nowI’d like to keep you from having to go through the same panic and paralysis when you get ready to create and publish YOUR book.
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EPISODE 271 - Elise Lapham - A Romance Novel that Will Make You Fall in Love With Your Environment
The Bitter End
By: Elise Lapham
As the summer unfolds, the heat is on. Old flames are re-ignited, but what is found could be lost again. As sparks fly and passion burns, a secret looms that could ultimately tear two people apart. The Bitter End follows Lilly Conroy as she embarks on a journey of reinvention, heartache, and new romance.
A Cape Cod love story focused on the beauty of building a new life from the ashes.
Meet The Author
Elise Lapham is a local author based in the Boston area. She is a communications professional, writer, author. Growing up she spent summers in Cape Cod, where her family owns a home and happy memories continue to be made. During her teenage years, she spent many special summers learning to sail with friends in Mattapoisett. It’s these fond summer memories that inspired her to write this book.
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EPISODE 270 - Garnett Kilberg Cohen Author of - Cravings - an expansive vision of humanity that lingersGarnett Kilberg Cohen is the author of four story collections: Cravings (due for release in October 2023); Lost Women, Banished Souls; How We Move the Air; and Swarm to Glory. Her chapbook, Passion Tour, was published by Finishing Line Press. Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker online, Rumpus, The Gettysburg Review, Witness, The Literary Review, StoryQuarterly, The Antioch Review and elsewhere, and she has been the recipient of many awards including a 2022 Curt Johnson award from december magazine, the Crazyhorse National Fiction Prize, The Lawrence Foundation Prize from Michigan Quarterly Review, and four Illinois Arts Council Awards, as well as two Notable Essay citations from Best American Essays. A former fiction editor at The Pennsylvania Review and Hotel Amerika, Garnett has also been an editor at Another Chicago Magazine, The South Loop Review, Punctuate, A Nonfiction Journal, and a guest editor at Fifth Wednesday.
She taught writing at Columbia College Chicago for more than thirty years. She also teaches creative writing workshops at various conferences and organizations, and works as a consultant with individual writers of fiction and nonfiction.
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EPISODE 269 - BettyJoyce Nash - Crafting A Story, Creating Characters and In a World of Environmental Change
BettyJoyce's novel, Everybody Here is Kin, forthcoming in 2023 from Madville Publishing.
Here's how writers describe BettyJoyce's book:
"In her beautiful Everybody Here is Kin, BettyJoyce Nash has laid bare the ways our blood betrays and restores us. The book is a powerful exploration of love's shadowy forms, and the ways our relationships are as shaped by desire as they are by the places we've called home, the places we keep running from and toward."
—Bret Anthony Johnston, international best-selling author of the novel, Remember Me Like This, and the short story collection Corpus Christi. He directs the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas in Austin.
"In Everybody Here is Kin, BettyJoyce Nash tells a coming-of-age tale that challenges notions of motherhood, both familial and as guardians of the earth. Lucille is a girl on the brink of adolescence whose intelligence is matched only by her intuitive knowledge of the natural world—where she's been left to monitor her two younger step-siblings. This story transcends time and place and will be a joy for anyone who loves this transient world.
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EPISODE 268 - Becky Burroughs - This is Next Chapter Living - resources and services to equip and empower you as a leader
This is Next Chapter Living
I have held a variety of leadership roles for 40+ years, as a small business owner, non-profit leader, and in several different church ministry roles. I know first-hand that your leadership role is hard work. It is not enough to be good at what you do; you have to also know how to lead and develop those under your leadership. I became a certified life/leadership coach to help other women, like you, along the journey of leadership.
As a leadership coach, I serve as a guide, helping you identify the strengths and weaknesses in your leadership and navigate a path to fully living into this call to lead. We begin with inner work, because you must first learn how to be the BOSS of your self-destructive thoughts so you can give your best before you can effectively be the BOSS who influences others to give their best.
As a life coach, I work with those of you navigating Life’s Next Chapter. A few years ago, I had a full-blown identity crisis when all of the roles and titles I held were stripped away. I realized I had placed my identity in all of these roles and did not know who I truly was without them. The dream I had always had for my life was shattered and I had no idea what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. Since then, I have learned the value of my story and I can honestly say I have never felt more authentically me than I do in this moment! I have a clear calling, a strong passion, a definite purpose and am living the dream of this next chapter of my life, and you can too.
Your God-given identity is the only one that will be with you throughout your life. Prayerfully discern why he thinks the world needs what only you have to offer and become passionate about that!
Book: Elevate Your Voice - 14 Women courageously share a personal story in the hope that it will inspire other women to own and share their stories
Book: Come Back Home To You - Whether expected or unexpected, a life transition can knock you off your feet. Even planned changes, such as moving to a new city, are hard—but changes you didn’t ask for, such as divorce or loss of a loved one? Those can be devastating.
Like many women, Becky Burroughs loved her husband, enjoyed being a mom, and had a successful career. Then, within a few years, her parents died, her position was eliminated, and her husband left their forty-year marriage. Her children were already grown, and she was alone for the first time in her life.
Shattered by grief and unable to shake her fears, she realized that she’d immersed herself so deeply in her various roles as daughter, wife, mother, and professional that she no longer knew who she was without them.
But changes don’t have to be paralyzing. In Come Back Home to You, Becky draws on her personal experience and conversations with dozens of women, as well as her expertise as a life coach, to help you navigate your own life changes, anchored in your true identity as created by God.
You’ll learn about the importance of mindset, how to deal with fear, how to intentionally incorporate joy into your life, and much more. Each section ends with questions for reflection to help you honor your experience, redefine who you are, and design your next life chapter.
Becky Burroughs is a professional life and leadership coach for Christian women whose mission is to encourage and empower women to love themselves as God loves them: unc
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EPISODE 267 - CB Strul - From Actor to Author, World Building, Character Development and Why You Should Have a Team As An Author
Book: The Ancient Ones is a Science Fiction adventure that takes place on Earth 100,000 years ago. It is the survival tale of a teenage girl named Blue Flower who escapes into the wilderness as her tribe is captured by an opposing clan. Out in the far reaches of the desert landscape, she is rescued by a being from another world and the two of them form a bond through music. c.b.strul presents his first full-length science fiction novel under the publishing flag of Odom's Library. He has previously released a series of three Spinners, Forget the Complex, and What Grows from the Stump of a Tree? He lives in Los Angeles with his fiancé, extended family, and two sweet pug doggies.
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EPISODE 266 - Kyllie Martin - From Grief to Joy, Unlocking a Joy Filled Life
Meet Kyllie, a debut author with a passion for storytelling, the Word of God, and the presence of the Holy Spirit. As a wife, mother, and friend, she brings warmth and connection to every relationship she cultivates. A church leader and speaker, Kyllie is passionate about empowering women and seeing the church embrace the fullness of the Kingdom. Recently returning to New Zealand after completing ministry school in California, she is settling back into a slower pace of life and finding inspiration for her subsequent books. She is enjoying the rich coffee culture, delectable food, and the midcentury modern design of her family home.
The Book: Unlimited Joy
Kyllie Martin thought she’d navigated two decades of suffering well, joyfully even, until God placed her in an environment where she encountered authentic, attractive, overflowing joy. After witnessing first-hand the strength that joy imparts, she wanted it for herself. So, she asked the Lord to teach her about His joy. Thus began a two-year journey of study and exploration. In her debut book, Unlimited Joy, Kyllie shares what the Lord taught her as she traced the theme of joy throughout the Bible and allowed the Holy Spirit to fill her again and again with the joy of the Lord.
As you read, you will discover there’s more to be had than simply getting through life’s challenges with your faith intact. You’ll learn how to:
Overcome despondency and encounter heaven’s joy
Practically activate joy in your life
Facilitate a joy-outbreak in your community, church, and nation!
Jesus wants you to have more than just a little bit of joy. He wants you to experience the fullness of it! Receive it, release it, and be transformed by the power of supernatural joy.
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EPISODE 265 - Stephanie Cotta - Editing Tips, Betta Readers and Her Book - The Conjurer's Curse
Stephanie Cotta writes epic fantasy and is the award-winning author of the young adult fantasy novel The Conjurer’s Curse. After discovering the world of Star Wars and the land of Narnia at a young age, her love of Sci-fi/Fantasy has been undying ever since. She loves writing stories of hope amidst insurmountable odds. Her goal as an author is to create realistic characters who struggle, who fail, who question, who doubt, but ultimately triumph so that readers young and old can use these journeys as a conduit that sheds light, hope, and truth on their own struggles. For it is often in peering through the lens of a fictional character that we find courage for ourselves, and the resiliency to face hardships.
The Conjurer’s Curse
Seventeen-year-old Rowan is a walking, breathing curse. He just hasn’t realized it yet.
Since birth Rowan has been the object of scorn in his village. The reason? He’s a dikyli—an outsider with albino skin and an ominous mark blazoned on his neck. So when his fourth guardian-mother is found dead, all blame falls on him, and he is banished before his life-draining curse can strike again. The only path left to Rowan is clear: He must discover who cursed him and alter his horrible fate, or forever lose everyone he loves.
THE CONJURER’S CURSE is a YA epic fantasy packed with fast-paced action-adventure, twists, turns, and romance. Featuring multiple POVs and a morally gray antihero, this novel will keep young and adult readers breathless and yearning for more.
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EPISODE 264 - Donna Edman - Women of Wisdom - A Book of Photos and Stories of Women and Capturing Legacy
Hello, I'm Donna.
I want to know you.
Anyone can click a camera. I spend extra time connecting with you because I want to tell your story, your vision.
What is it that brings you joy? An aura of contentment can be elicited by a sweet thought of a child. A bold gaze can be conjured by sharing a vision for the future. Some people like to talk. Some people need to run, dance, or sit thoughtfully in silence.
I capture the best images by allowing you to be who you truly are.
Women of Wisdom Book
This began as a art project to honor women over 50 with a custom portrait and to give them a voice.
I found these women so interesting, it developed into a book!
May you be inspired to share YOUR wisdom.
Are you a woman looking for direction in a complicated world? Do you long for guidance from wise women who have been there?
Many women have not had a role model to help them find their way. They feel pressured by society to only please others or focus on making peace among their friends and family.
In this powerful collection of stories and portraits, you’ll hear wisdom from women ages 50-95 who share hard-won lessons about courage, grace, and strength.
No matter your age, you will appreciate the advice these 49 women have given to their 20-year-old selves. The portraits are not retouched. These women want to be seen as they truly are. Every wrinkle, age spot, gnarled knuckle and pound has been earned. They are beautiful.
There is no need to travel the road alone. Let these wise women be your guide.
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EPISODE 263 - Angela R Hughes - Returning Guest - Working With a Writing Coach, Publishing 101 and Author Tool Suggestions
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BONUS - Dave's Book Suggestion for November - Storyworthy - Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling by Matthew Dicks
A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story — and why doing so matters. Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big orsmall). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
About Matthew Dicks
Matthew Dicks is the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, The Other Mother, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs, Twenty-one Truths About Love, as well as the nonfiction Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Art of Storytelling, and Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life.
His novels have been translated into more than 25 languages worldwide.
Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend was the 2014 Dolly Gray Award winner and was nominated for a 2017 Nutmeg Award in Connecticut. Matthew has been awarded first prize in the Magazine/Humorous Column category by the CT Society of Professional Journalists in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
He is also the author of the rock opera The Clowns and the musicals Caught in the Middle, Sticks & Stones, and Summertime. He has written comic books for Double Take comics. He is the humor columnist for Seasons magazine, an advice columnist for Slate magazine.
Matthew is the creator and co-host of the podcasts Speak Up Storytelling, a podcast that helps listeners improve their storytelling and Boy vs. Girl, a podcast about gender and gender stereotypes.
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BONUS - National Podcast Post Month - Release a Podcast Episode Every Day in November - NaPodPoMo
National Podcast Post Month is celebrating 16 years! Join the 30 days of podcasting fun starting on November 1st!
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Use the hashtag #napodpomo and share your experiences with one another and to have fun!
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EPISODE 262 - Lauren Eckhardt - The Power of a Story, Joining a Writer's Group and How Ghostwriting Transforms
About Lauren
Lauren is an award-winning and best-selling author and CEO, ghostwriter, and book coach at Burning Soul Press. She’s also the mama to two little guys who are her why that drives her every day. She’s an advocate for determined and passionate writers who listen to their soul’s calling and the number one cheerleader for authors who want to share their life through a story, whether fiction or nonfiction. Lauren believes that every single person’s life journey has provided valuable learning opportunity to forge deeper connections with others and make a true difference in this world.
Book Coaching
With book coaching, we work on elements of your book such as structure, voice, tone, message delivery, target audience connection, storytelling, industry expectations, and identify any gaps that may exist between the author telling what they know vs. what the reader still needs to be able to understand. We also set a timeline for when we want the entire book to be done, and I keep you accountable to the milestones we set.
Writing & Publishing Programs
Two options: With the Soul Writer Society program, you join an inspiring community of writers keeping each other accountable to writing their life stories.
The Soulful Author Journey program helps you write, publish, and promote your book in 12 months with weekly group coaching, a transformative coach, and supportive community.
Ghostwriting
Ghostwriting is a service that takes the ideas and stories of the client and transforms them into books that fit the client’s authentic vision, tone, and vision. It is best for clients who have a very specific idea or concept for a book and are willing to provide the ghostwriter with the information and stories they need to be able to write the client’s book in the timeline set.
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EPISODE 261 - Eric Guttmann - The ABC's of Writing Your Book, Fat Loss After 40, and Building Coaching into Your Author Journey
First it’s five pounds, then ten. Before long, you find yourself fifty pounds overweight and relying on motivation to magically melt the pounds—only your motivation is gone.
Perhaps you’ve always struggled with weight gain. Or maybe this was never a concern until your forties. For most of us, though, weight gain is a constant battle that becomes harder to win the older we are.
How do we make progress against Mother Nature? When do we stop fighting our own bodies? In Fat Loss After 40, retired Naval Officer Eric Guttmann—a health and fitness expert—provides his sensible system for shedding fat without starvation or excessive exercise. He shows you how to adopt a successful mindset and incorporate an elimination diet to reduce inflammation and drop pounds—potentially ten to fifteen in the first thirty days. You’ll learn how to reap benefits from fasting, incorporate a single exercise to boost human growth hormone, and use supplements to optimize cellular energy. If you’re tired of bearing the burden of excess weight, Fat Loss After 40 is the inspiration and know-how you need to lose the pounds—for good.
Eric Guttmann is an author and an Ultimate Human Performance (UHP) certified physio/kinesiology expert who served for more than twenty years in active duty as both a Naval Flight Officer (NFO) and a Foreign Area Officer (FAO). With several instruction certifications, including Elite Combat Fitness and Commando Krav Maga, Eric is a US Navy Certified Fitness Leader (CFL) with degrees in Physical Education and National Security Affairs. He studied acupuncture and Eastern medicine. He was also a collegiate track athlete in the javelin, along with judo and gymnastics.
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EPISODE 260 - Aly Bird - Grief Allyship - the act of supporting and advocating for those who are grieving by providing unconditional love, empowerment, and deep reverence for their experience
My Story
When I was thirty the person that I loved and trusted the most in this world died without any warning or time to prepare. I wasn’t left with just heartbreak and longing, I was leftover in a world that no longer made sense to me anymore and sensations in my body that were foreign, involuntary and happening without my consent.
Before my beloved died I’d never experienced a loss that changed my life so dramatically. From my spiritual beliefs to my worldview right down to not knowing what possessive pronouns to use, I was left bewildered. Was it still our bed if I would be the only one sleeping in it now?
In the world I was familiar with, people died when they were old, if you were a good person then good things happened to you. I longed for my future because I thought we, me and my beloved – the person that I chose to spend my life with – were in control of it. But my beloved’s death changed all of that.
In the aftermath of my loss, I quickly realized that my experience of support was unique and unlike the horror stories of isolation and ignorance that I would hear from my widowed peers. With a willingness to lean into personal development, my support network and I dove headfirst into a world that none of us ever wanted to live in. And with unconditional love, courage, and brutal honesty, we’ve been auspiciously navigating how to live without my beloved, together. It’s our collective experience that inspired me to write Grief Ally, and develop a practice in teaching grief allyship because no one will ever know how to support someone they love through the long-haul of grief if we’re not willing to talk about it.
My Philosophy
I believe that grief is a primary human experience that should not be pathologized.
I believe that every human experiences grief in their own unique way.
I believe that it is our right as humans to be able to grieve without judgment from others.
I believe that grief lasts forever, we don’t “get over it” or “move on” or “fix it.”
What is Grief Allyship?
Grief Allyship is the act of supporting and advocating for those who are grieving by providing unconditional love, empowerment, and deep reverence for their experience.
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EPISODE 259 - Steve Lubetkin - The Business of Podcasting - A Book For All Podcasters
ABOUT THE BOOK
Two of the pioneers in podcasting have joined forces to co-author The Business of Podcasting: How to Take Your Podcasting Passion from the Personal to the Professional, which focuses on the business aspects of producing audio programs for the Web.
The book is now available in trade paperback at this link. It is also on the Amazon Kindle, for instant purchase and download.
The authors are Donna Papacosta of Trafalgar Communications, host of the popular “Trafcom News Podcast” and an internationally known trainer and seminar leader; and Steve “@PodcastSteve” Lubetkin, founder of Professional Podcasts , one of the first podcast production companies and now a division of The Lubetkin Media Companies LLC, an award-winning producer of business and organizational podcasts, with more than three quarters of a million downloads.
Unlike other podcasting books that delve into the mechanics of creating a podcast, The Business of Podcasting describes the business side of podcasting: how to position clients’ expertise through podcasting, the best business models, how to find clients, contracts, legal reviews, and much more.
A nationally published writer and photojournalist, he is a member of the Online News Association, Radio & Television Digital News Association (RTNDA), National Press Photographers Association, the Society of Professional Journalists, and the Professional Photographers of America. Since 1996, he has written “CompuSchmooze,” a technology column in the Jewish Community Voice of Southern New Jersey (www.jewishvoicesnj.org), and since 2014, he has been the New Jersey and Philadelphia editor for GlobeSt.com, a commercial real estate news website, and a contributing editor to Real Estate Forum, its sister print publication.
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JF Hughes - Author of the Tragic Romance Novel - The Gardens of Byzantium
Set in 622 A.D. during the decades-long war between the Persian and Eastern Roman empires, The Gardens of Byzantium offers a unique backdrop for a tragic love story.
The main characters, Asana and Antonius, are on opposing sides of the war, which began before Asana was even born. Her entire life has been one of turmoil and change. Every year found her uprooted and brought to another foreign land to live an austere life in a garrison with her father, an officer in the Persian Army. But the middle of a war is no place for such a gentle soul.
Before long, she is swept away from her family and forced to flee on the back of her beloved horse. Fate leads her into the hands of a handsome and mysterious Roman soldier named Antonius who sequesters her in a beautiful palace in the heart of Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine empire.
Asana begins to fall for him, and at last it seems as though she may have found an oasis of happiness in her war-torn world. That is, until news of a Persian army marching toward the city upends her life again, setting in motion an unstoppable chain of events that bring the story to its breathtaking and tragic conclusion.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Born in New York City and raised in New Jersey, J.F. Hughes graduated college with a degree in Business. He works full-time as a property manager and moonlights as a music teacher. Creative at heart, Hughes has been actively pursuing his passion for writing and is excited to launch his debut fiction novel, The Gardens of Byzantium.
To learn more, please visit https://jfhbooks.com/
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EPISODE 258 - Sabrina Hammonds - How an Agency Can Help You Get On More Podcasts, Learn How to be a better guest
More about our guest - I absolutely love hearing about what God is doing in the lives of people. And even more than that, I am passionate about helping others fulfill their purpose and expand their reach.
Hello…I’m Sabrina
I am a wife and mother of 4 and I just recently gained a beautiful new daughter. I chose to step away from working full time as a teacher in order to be home more with my family. As someone who has walked through a lot in my life, I believe we all have our own transformation story and when shared, it can provide hope and encouragement to others.
My journey to podcast booking began with one prayer.
Robyn was a woman who I went to church with. A woman that I only knew from a distance, so I wasn’t sure why the Lord had told me to pray for her. As I would pray, the Lord began to give me a supernatural love for her. My relationship with Robyn grew as I sent her my love and prayers. From there, the Lord said to start praying for her business. Through my prayers and our relationship, I learned that she had an incredible testimony and message that I believed others needed to hear. I approached Robyn about helping her share her testimony and she quickly responded by saying that the lord had already told her she was supposed to speak to many.
From there, the Lord has sent more women that I’m honored to partner with and their stories and journey’s continue to grow. How exciting it would be to add your story to that journey!
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EPISODE 257 - Angela R Hughes - When A Story Won't Leave You Alone - Fantasy and History Collide in this new Trilogy
Angela R. Hughes is a historical fantasy author based in Waco, Texas. It has been her ambition to write stories that grip and inspire the readers, alluring them into myth and legend.
Angela believes in the power of storytelling, as dynamic and inspiring tales have been told for thousands of years. She has always been inspired by mythologies and legends of the hero’s quest, and has always loved the idea of creating her own. She has been particularly drawn to Arthurian legend, and its ancient roots that spanned into the Cymru world. She has studied Arthurian legend, as well as Celtic Mythology. While living in Ireland, she fell in love with the history and landscapes of England, Ireland, Wales, and Scotland.
The Once and Future Chronicles, Book One: Elanor and the Song of the Bard is her first published novel. The first of many. Soon to follow: Book Two: Merlin and the Magic of Time, and Book Three: Arthur and the Golden Dragon.
In addition to writing, Angela enjoys painting, inspiring others, being with her family, chatting with fellow nerds over coffee, baking, visiting wineries, and traveling.
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EPISODE 256 - Megan Nolan - The Warrior's Journey, Ancient Wisdom for the Modern Entrepreneur
Transform Your Business and Life With the Ancient Wisdom Of Yoga-
Even If You Can’t Touch Your Toes, Stand On One Foot, or Quiet Your Mind For Longer Than 3 Seconds!
Discover 7 timeless tools for sustainable success in the new book:
"The Warrior's Journey"
https://thewarriorsjourneybook.com/
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EPISODE 255 - Wayne McDaniel - A Children's Trilogy Written in the Car - Working with an Illustrator and A Great Publisher
Wayne McDaniel is a grandfather of two. He and his wife, Jude, live in a beautiful log house in Lawrence Kansas, along with their dog Trek. He loves to bicycle and hike. Wayne says, “A day in the mountains is worth a thousand days in the office!”
Wayne has travelled all over the world, including Iceland, Italy, India, Kyrgyzstan, China, Australia, Mexico and Central America. He is very grateful his company was able to adopt two villages in India, bringing hope and opportunity to thousands of rural people.
Wayne is a seeker of truth and lover of the Great Light, as he is loved greatly by the Great Light.
From his teenage years, Wayne has been interested in spiritual matters. He grew up in St. Louis, attended a Presbyterian church, met some Catholic charismatics, was baptized in the Spirit, went to Oral Roberts University and become deeply involved in his church as an adult. He always loved to study and read about theology.
However, he was never comfortable with many of the judgmental, dogmatic and exclusive perspectives of organized religion. Through ongoing study, he came to embrace a broader spiritual perspective, which sees God as Universal Love and Light and each person as an expression of that Light. Understanding scriptures through mystical eyes, he can see this truth within the Christian scriptures as well as many other religious traditions.
His mission in life is to help others increase their capacity to live and to give. He does this through his work and writings. His goal with this book is to help young children and their parents know the truth about how precious they are and how much they are loved.
Stay tuned, preorder information for Wayne’s 1st book, Children of the Great Light will be coming soon. 100% of the profits of this book will be donated to children-oriented charities, which promote the well-being of kids.
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EPISODE 254 - Laurence Braun-Woodbury - Author of Glamorous Failures - a funny, tightly plotted page-turner of a novel
Laurence Braun-Woodbury is a writer of fiction. His debut novel Glamorous Failures is available now.
Glamorous Failures is a tapestry of interwoven narratives that build elegantly on one another to create a thrilling, emotionally resonant whole. Its vivid, distinctive characters are brimming with vivacity and deeply felt humanity. This narrative-driven hopepunk dramedy is a remarkable offering from first-time novelist Laurence Braun-Woodbury. Full of heart and humour Glamorous Failures will move you like few books can.
An obscure professor of business ethics nurses a grudge against power. A burned out social worker gives up on her profession, no longer certain her work is making a difference but believing she still can. A strangely charming freelance computer repair tech wraps copper wire around an electrified magnet...
Flowing in and out of eachothers lives, these diverse personalities strive to make a better world by building solidarities and finding pathways towards a low-overhead revolution. Their various projects precipitate a cozy kidnapping on the prairies, a peoples' inflationary crisis, and the distribution of non-lethal DIY weapons for the war against the archons of ecocide. Their stories overlap in unexpected ways, not least of which is their shared refusal to despair. Steeped in labour and love, the misadventures of these recognizable protagonists coalesce into a hopepunk dramedy made for the age of cataclysm.
Glamorous Failures is a tapestry of interwoven narratives that build elegantly on one another to create a gripping, emotionally resonant whole. Its vivid, distinctive characters are brimming with life and deeply felt humanity. Full of heart and humour, this intricately layered story will move you in a way few books can.
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EPISODE 253 - Danyelle Cedar - Dear Thomas - A Memoir That Addresses Addiction and Relationships
What is it like to be in love with a drug addict?
Danyelle Cedar learns the answer to this question the hard way, never leaving her partner's side through an endless cycle of relapse and recovery, holding desperately onto hope. And she battles her own addictions in her efforts to save him: her addiction to being needed, her addiction to success, her addiction to proving others wrong, and her addiction to love.
After accumulating and then unburying herself from an avalanche of debt, she opens a successful air-conditioning company, working hard and never giving up so that one day a perfect future might fall into place. She has their entire life planned out, and it is beautiful, until she is completely blindsided.
Dear Thomas is a series of letters sharing an inner journey of heartache, patience, physical and mental stress, betrayal, and surviving the most horrific and sometimes humorous experiences imaginable, all while supporting and saving someone incapable of love.
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EPISODE 252 - AJ Forget - The Buslife Kitchen - Cuisine for the Modern Nomad
Our mission is to craft and share cuisine for the modern nomad. We live in Sweet Bea, our short bus, and turn out both gourmet fare and easy, weeknight recipes from our tiny kitchen and 3-burner stove. The goal is to empower you to realize that cooking excellent food in a tiny kitchen is not only possible, but easy, and that the rewards are certainly worth the effort.
In the autumn of 2017, Andy left a career as a wildland firefighter in order to pursue his other passions of cooking, travel, and writing. Over the three years that followed, he met the love of his life, turned a retired short bus into a tiny home, and hit the road to see the world and share his love of cooking and delicious food with everyone he could find.
What you have here, The Buslife Kitchen, is the culmination of years of work and exploration. Through plenty of travel, many books, and countless hours in the kitchen, Andy taught himself about the foods of the world and how to prepare them. He then set about the task of refining these recipes for use in a tiny kitchen with only a 3-burner propane stove and no oven. And there you have it: cuisine for the modern nomad.
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EPISODE 251 - Christa Joy - Powerful Whispers - A 7-Week Journey Discovering Who You are To God
Christa Joy Spaeth is the founder of Christa Joy Ministries. It was in 2022 when Minnesota-based author Christa received a compelling message from God. In a prayer cabin called “Whisper,” He prompted her to write a seven-week devotional.
Since then, Christa’s eyes, heart, and ears were opened to more whispers, so that she may start fulfilling her new purpose of helping the hurting and share the love of Christ.
This blessed wife, mother of two, and businesswoman is passionate about living up to God’s plans for her every day. So much so that in 2022, she stepped down from her decades-long career as a Registered Dietitian at a large food manufacturing company to pursue the promptings of the Lord and encourage others in Christ.
Today, Christa owns and operates Christa Joy Ministries where she publishes her own books, hosts a podcast, and writes daily encouragements on her social media. In addition, she does guest blog posts for various social media accounts.
Background
Christa is a Registered Dietitian with a Master’s in Nutrition. She has extensive experience working in a test kitchen and with K12 nutrition for a large food manufacturer. Christa also worked as an independent dietitian consultant analyzing menus, and as a community volunteer.
“Powerful Whispers: A 7-Week Journey Discovering Who You Are to God” by Christa Joy Spaeth is the tool you need to grow your trust, love, and knowledge of the Lord’s love for you in just 7 weeks.
This self-processing, devotional book is broken up into 7 weekly themes:
Week 1: God Knows You
Week 2: God Loves You
Week 3: God Fights for You
Week 4: God Provides for You
Week 5: God Chose You
Week 6: God’s Peace for You
Week 7: The God Who Whispers
The book is made richer by 6 other contributors who provide different enriching and encouraging perspectives from the Lord. As you immerse yourself in each Bible reference, story, suggested worship, prayer, reflection space, and activation every single day.
Even better? You get powerful worship music playlists to soak in more of God’s love and greatness daily!
If you’re ready to gain a keener ear and heart to God’s daily whispers to you, then this book is exactly what you need!
https://www.christajoyministries.com/
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BONUS - Audible Book Suggestion - Beyond Powerful Radio by Valerie Geller
Beyond Powerful Radio is a complete guide to becoming a powerful communicator for radio, Internet, TV, public speaking - for anyone who wants to learn to communicate powerfully. It's a cookbook for communicators and broadcasters to improve. It's practical; it's easy. You'll find techniques to create content, produce and host a show, grow an audience, news gathering, coverage of investigative and breaking stories, and writing and delivering commercial copy. Plus how to make money with your show, sales and marketing, and build programming for news, talk, producers, citizen journalism, copywriting, sales, commercials, promotions, production, research, fundraising, and more.
Plus: tips to assemble a winning team; develop, build, and market your brand; get your next job in broadcasting, effectively promote your product; increase sales; write and produce commercials; raise money with your station; deal with creative burnout and manage high ego talent; and research and grow your audience.
Never be boring! Get, keep, and grow audiences through powerful personality, storytelling, and focus across any format. Tried-and-true broadcast techniques apply to the myriad forms of audio broadcast available today, including Web radio and podcasting. While the technology and delivery systems change, the one constant is content! Listeners, viewers, and surfers want to be entertained, informed, inspired, persuaded, and connected with powerful personalities and storytellers.
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EPISODE 250 - Izabella Whitney - Ten Year Old Author Launches Her First Book and Shares Her Message With The World
The Book: When in Doubt...Don't Freak Out
Are you a middle schooler who wants to build successful study skills? Look no further than "When in Doubt…Don't Freak Out! A Middle Schooler's Guide to Building Successful Study Skills" by middle schooler Izabella Whitney. With this book, you'll discover the study tools you need to have confidence in your ability to get all of your homework completed and turned in on time.
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EPISODE 249 - Meliza Farndell - Getting Untangled - are you still keep tripping over your bad habits and self-destructive behaviours
Hi there! I am Meliza.
I am a wife and mum of two awesome kids. Life is full here in Preston, UK. When I am not running the household or playing taxi, I am writing books, developing courses, and coaching people – helping them to walk in freedom; in their true identity and purpose.
I love what I do and I enjoy my life – but this was not always how I would tell my story.
My story started in an ideal setting. I was born and raised in beautiful South Africa. The first-born daughter of a pastor. My parents loved me dearly and provided a great life for me and my sister. But like any story, there are often twists and turns that we don’t anticipate. Enter: an enemy that comes to kill, steal and destroy.
Left in the pit of despair with little hope of freedom, empty from pouring myself out for everyone, and tired from trying to fix my own self-destructive behaviours, I was ready to give up on God. It felt like He didn’t see or care about me. It felt like my desperate cries for freedom fell on deaf ears.
But one day, God showed up on the big screen. At the cinema on the docks in Preston, He showed me that, He not only saw my suffering, but He cared deeply about my heart. It was time to move out of the pit of despair and into the palace where I belonged – seated in heavenly places with the Father who loves me.
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EPISODE 248 - Lois A Ivory - UnEqually Yoked My Testimony my Healing - How Others Influence Your Life
Lois A. Ivory was born in Battle Creek, Michigan and grew up as the eldest of 7 siblings in a two-parent household on the westside of Detroit, attending schools in the area before going on to Wayne Community College. She is a certified Esthetician, a p rofessional makeup artist for the living and deceased, a Permanent Makeup Artist, a Notary Public and Wedding Officiant and currently the CEO of Ashes to Beauty Finding Your Inner Self LLC.
Lois has also been a regular writer for many years and has two makeup magazines - Ashes 2 Beauty Show Me What You Slayy and Ashes 2 Beauty: Finding Your Inner Self 2018 Christmas Edition. She previously worked in collaboration with her son on publishing a book, Different Shades Of Beauty, which they created for children.
Her hopes for the future include empowering and inspiring all women of color and help them heal from past trauma and become more aware of their strengths, standards, and boundaries.
Unequally Yoked: My Testimony & My Healing
Are you properly protecting yourself from bad relationships as much as possible?
Have you lost all feelings of self-worth and self-love?
Is it time to make a stand and change your life?
Many of us experience trauma in our lives that can come about from external forces like a broken home, domestic violence and ignoring red flags or just bad choices with the partners we share our lives with.
This book is for anyone who has found themselves to be unequally yoked to a partner and who wants to change this and live a life that is free from damaging situations.
Part memoir, part self-help, all transformative, it will help you to avoid the poor life choices, bad decisions and difficult paths that often ruin your plans. It's never too late to act.
Remove yourself from toxic relationships, help your heart to heal and set new boundaries that will see you thrive as never before. Do it now and give yourself the chances in life that you deserve.
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EPISODE 247 - Debbie R Weiss - Caregiver right out of high school, Serving Others and Neglecting Herself
Hello, I'm Debbie...
For most of my life, my set of beliefs was fairly consistent with my upbringing and life experience. Certainly, all of us are shaped by the people, places, and circumstances of our lives. I was not one to ever question those beliefs. I just assumed they were correct and to be quite honest, I never really gave it any thought.
My life changed forever the day after I graduated from high school when my Dad had a massive stroke. He survived and I was his primary caregiver for the next 30 years. This was the beginning of me taking care of everyone else at the expense of myself.
I was and still am a "fixer" and a "problem solver". I have a strong desire to be the one to help, which is admirable (if I do say so myself ), however, I sacrificed my own well-being in the process.
My belief was "it is what it is". It's not like I have a choice.
My life has always been about doing everything for everyone else without giving much consideration to my own needs and wants. I would hear what other people were doing and often be jealous and think, "that must be nice, but I can't do that". Anyone who offered a suggestion, I always had a reason why "I can't do it". Other people can, but I can't.
Until I turned 50 and realized that this is it. This is my one and only life and I don't want to look back years from now with regret for the things I haven't done.
Maybe I can try something new.
Maybe I can put myself first.
Maybe I can take control of my future.
Maybe I can live the life of my dreams.
After all, other people do it, so why not me?
I'm done with my excuses and ready to take back my life and I know exactly how I'm going to do it.
https://www.debbierweiss.com/blog
https://www.debbierweiss.com/ Update: Debbie appeared on The Kelly Clarkson Show to talk about her book! Here is a YouTube link to her appearance.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVKQYSNn3s0
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EPISODE 246 - Jared Brenchley - The Use of A.I. in Writing his book on Finding Off-Market Properties
We look at using A.I. to help write your book, Jared's author journey, what he has learned writing his book
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EPISODE 245 - Nathan Wall - Kindle Vella Stories - The Adventures of Rascal Boy and Marionette
The Adventures of Rascal Boy and Marionette - Popularity isn't a Superpower. Mary Alexander and her brother Joey have lives full of secrets. None more important than their Dad's true identity. When a group of B-list villains take over their school, and Dad isn't there to save the day, Mary and Joey act instinctively, but with devastating consequences. They soon learn there's no dabbling with alter egos. Who can they trust when everyone has an agenda? Solving murders, stopping thieves, and doing homework become just another school night.
Teen & Young Adult / Science Fiction
Kindle Vella stories are available for US customers on Amazon.com
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EPISODE 244 - Sharon Rand - From Drug Addiction to Pastor's Wife and Being Caught in the Middle
Coach Sharon Rand has an amazing story from challenge to champion. Sharon left behind her drug addiction and life in New York for a new life, and a new calling. Sharon shares her struggle of forgiveness, battling acceptance and finding her calling when the cards were stacked against her.
Had she not made the move she did, when she did, she may never have made it to tell her transformational story. An unlikely turn in her story takes her from one world to a completely different reality
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EPISODE 243 - Patrick Lombardi - A Listener, Now a Guest - Junk Sales and Food Truck Recipes
Patrick Lombardi was born and raised in New Jersey and currently resides in Mercer County. He graduated from Rider University in Lawrenceville, N.J., with a bachelor’s degree in English. He is a full-time employee with the state and contributes to BestofNJ.com. He also has been published in outlets such as BuzzFeed, NJ.com, The Times of Trenton, Odyssey, MyCentralJersey.com, Courier News, Home News Tribune, and Patch.com. His first book, Junk Sale, a collection of humorous short stories and essays, was published in August 2018. His second book, The New Jersey Food Truck Cookbook, hit shelves February 13, 2023.
Books
Junk Sales - Stories and Essays - Don’t expect to find any hidden gems at this junk sale.
In writer/journalist Patrick Lombardi’s debut book, tales get twisted and encounters get heated. This collection features more than a dozen humorous short stories and nonfiction essays. Lombardi has crafted a hilarious adventure into his own little world, where a man finds love while committing burglary, a fresh college graduate does his best not to get hired, and a bitter server verbally abuses his guests.
So buckle up for a chaotic ride of stories that live up to their collective title. Junk Sale is bound to make you laugh so hard you’ll cry—or cry so hard you’ll laugh. Either way, you’ll cry. Isn’t that the point of humor?
The New Jersey Food Truck Cookbook - Discover the best of the Garden State's booming food truck scene...
Whether appearing at food festivals, catering personal and business events or just serving up lunch on the job site, New Jersey’s food trucks are some of the best in the nation. These eateries on wheels offer mouthwatering favorites alongside innovative interpretations of iconic dishes. The Jersey Roll truck and shop keeps tradition alive, slinging the Garden State staple pork roll, egg and cheese sandwich to the masses. Beach vibes and good eats are found at the Surf and Turf truck, where the BLT lobster roll offers a twist on the coastal classic. Baking some of the best cheesecakes in the region for more than forty years, Maddalena’s opened a roving dessert truck that serves the deliciously different cheesecake on a stick. Popular publication BestofNJ.com presents profiles of the best New Jersey food trucks, including easy-to-cook recipes from some of their most delectable meals.
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MindShift Power Podcast is for teens, about teens, and anyone who works with teens. Many of the guests will be teens from all over the US and Canada. We will discuss issues that involve teens. Solutions start with conversations. Real conversations can not happen unless we are honest.
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EPISODE 242 - Ivanka Fear - You can run. You can hide. But in the end, the past catches up with you
About Ivanka Fear
Ivanka Fear is Canadian writer, born in Slovenia. She earned her B.A. and B.Ed. in English and French at Western University. Prior to pursuing writing full time, she enjoyed a long career in education. Her debut novel, The Dead Lie, is the first in her Blue Water Mysteries series. Ivanka is a member of International Thriller Writers and Sisters in Crime. She resides in Ontario, Canada, with her family and the stray cats that wandered in. When not reading and writing, Ivanka enjoys watching mystery series and romance movies, gardening, going for walks, and watching the waves roll in at the lake.
Book: The Dead Lie: A Blue Water Mystery
You can run. You can hide. But in the end, the past catches up with you.
Lana, a young mother who suffered a traumatic event 11 years ago, has been living under an assumed name. When she visits her hometown to check if it’s safe to reclaim her identity, Lana suffers several mishaps. Then her parents are killed in a car crash. Lana blames herself and her past mistakes until she discovers her mom and dad weren’t who they claimed to be, leading her to suspect their secrets may be responsible for their deaths.
Lana returns to her family’s native Croatian village to visit her grandmother in hopes of learning the truth about her parents and the reason they died. When she meets the villagers, they slam their doors in Lana’s face at the mention of her father. Meanwhile, the near misses that happened back home follow her to Croatia, as does a tall, dark stranger.
Lana probes into the village’s past and uncovers a cold case and a decades old curse, bringing out the ghosts of the past and putting herself in the same danger her parents ran from years ago.
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EPISODE 241 - Mark Gordon - Relationship Matters - The Essential Blueprint to Building Strong Families & Fostering Healthy Relationships
ABOUT MARK GORDON
I am a Relationship Catalyst who Empowers people to develop healthy relationships through inspirational speaking, transformational courses, and coaching!
I have seen hundreds of lives transformed with the principals taught.
I have been involved in community leadership, coaching, teaching, and keynote speaking for more than 30 years. My passion for people is evident to anyone who experience my speaking, writing, courses or coaching. I have a strong desire to empower people, families and organizations to become relationally, emotionally and spiritually healthy.
My greatest success has been my amazing family. I have been married to my wife Sandi for over 40 years, I have three growth children, who are married, and two grandchildren.
Book: Relationship Matters: The Essential Blueprint to Building Strong Families & Fostering Healthy Relationships - Are you at a loss to understand how your marriage has become so miserable, or do you wonder why your children are completely out of control? Relationship Matters is designed to help you and your family figure out what went wrong and to help create a healthy relational culture at home. Based on the metaphor of constructing a strong house, the content is presented in three sections.
Building a Healthy Foundation discusses the five fundamental pillars of a healthy relationship.
Building a Strong Framework teaches how to motivate family members, so they each flow in a common or shared direction.
Building a Sturdy Roof introduces relational protection through fostering an understanding of authority and family roles.
Work through the exercises, discuss your results with family members, and reflect on your own ways of acting and communicating. These activities all help build your family's investment in each other and your understanding of yourself.
Relationship Matters offers insight into your family dynamics and ways to improve them. Learn how to build trust equity. Build authentic relationships. Create a healthy family culture.
Relationship Matters is a timely invitation and inspiring guide for what it means to live an empowered and purposeful life in relationship with others. Mark has outlined 5 critical pillars that provide a roadmap and strategic action plan for individuals wanting to create a family environment that is transformational in the way it supports its members to become healthy, content, competent and flourishing adults.
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EPISODE 240 - Jane Rosen - From Screenplays, Bill Murray and Rod Stewart Interactions to Becoming an Author in New York
About Jane
Jane L. Rosen is an author and Huffington Post contributor. She lives in New York City and Fire Island with her husband and three daughters. Her first novel Nine Women, One Dress was translated into ten languages. Her second novel Eliza Starts a Rumor has been optioned by NBC. Her latest novel, On Fire Island, is out now!
Book: On Fire Island - "Dazzling...as funny as it is poignant, nostalgic as it is sharp." —Carley Fortune, New York Times bestselling author of Every Summer After
A book editor spends one last summer on Fire Island in this sparkling and surprising new novel from the author of A Shoe Story.
As a book editor, Julia Morse lived and breathed stories. Whether with her pen to a manuscript or curled up with a book while at her beloved Fire Island cottage, her imagination alight with a good tale, she could anticipate practically any ending. The ending she’d never imagined was her own.
To be fair, no one expects to die at thirty-seven. So when the unthinkable happens to Julia, rather than following the light at the end of the proverbial tunnel, she chooses to spend one last summer near those she loves most.
As she follows her adoring, novelist husband Ben to their—unexpectedly full—home on Fire Island, she discovers the ripple affect her life has had on the trajectory of so many: her baseball loving, young-at-heart neighbor who believes it’s best not to go it alone, two bright-eyed teenagers eager to become adults, and her best friend who must shake off heartbreak for a new chance at love.
With poignant comedy and insight, On Fire Island is an ode to the stories all around us and to the brightest types of loves…for the people closest to you and the places that shape you.
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EPISODE 239 - Gunner J Duck - The Youngest Author on Our Podcast and His Multi-Series of Ninja Puppy Books
Gunner is now 10 years old and is working on writing more books. He is also taking the time to educate himself about how his Ninja Puppy stories can be enjoyed by children and adults everywhere through games, movies, TV shows, and even toys! Gunner also wants to help share stories with readers everywhere about kindness, love, self-control and many other awesome qualities. He loves the idea that a child can be successful in reaching their goals just like adults can and he hopes that perhaps, his books can inspire other children to do what they love, work hard, and find success in doing those things.
Ninja Puppy's Journey
Gunner Duck is a young, author and illustrator who has won awards in various statewide and nationwide kids writing contests. He has also had his award-winning book series titled "Ninja Puppy" published on various PBS websites, television programs, and it has been printed for public sales. Gunner's book series, in many ways, is a representation of the relationships and lessons that have been important to him in his life.
As a 5-year-old in Kindergarten, Gunner wrote and illustrated his first book titled Ninja Puppy, which won 1st place in the Arkansas PBS Kids Writers Contest.
As a 6-year-old in the first grade, Gunner wrote and illustrated the first sequel in his series titled Ninja Puppy and the Donut Avalanche, which won 2nd place in the Arkansas PBS Kids Writers Contest as well as 2nd place in the WJCT PBS Kids Writers Contest in Florida.
As a 7-year-old in the second grade, Gunner wrote and illustrated the second sequel in his series titled Ninja Puppy VS Bigfoot, which won third place in the Las Vegas PBS Kids Writers Contest.
As an 8-year-old in the 3rd grade, Gunner wrote and illustrated his 4th Ninja Puppy book titled Ninja Puppy in China. This book won 1st place in the WJCT PBS Kids Writers Contest in Florida, 2nd place in the Ozark PBS Kids Writers Contest in Missouri, as well as 3rd place in the Arkansas PBS Kids Writers Contest. He is so thankful that people across the country have shown interest in his books and hopes he can grow the Ninja Puppy brand so that families everywhere can enjoy the fun and loveable characters in his books.
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EPISODE 238 - Elizabeth Clamon - Beauty Rising from Brokenness - Journey Through Childhood Trauma to Chronic Illness Into Healing
About the Author
Elizabeth Clamon studied Holistic Nutrition and Naturopathic Medicine at Clayton College of Health and Psychology at Louisiana Baptist University. She is the Founder and COO of The Clamon Group, LLC, Fiercely Unstoppable Life Consulting and Coaching, Relentless Hearts Ministries, Elizabeth Clamon, Speaker and International Bestselling Author. She has a unique perspective when she speaks, she captivates audiences, has them laughing, crying and feeling oh so inspired! If you are looking for a dynamic speaker, you don’t want to miss this Unstoppable powerhouse! She shares from from her more than twenty-five years of experience as a serial entrepreneur, Coach, experience as a chronic pain patient, military spouse, and survivor of childhood trauma and being disabled and bedridden for twelve years by an auto accident.
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EPISODE 237 - Stewart Lee - Me and My Addiction - one man’s battle to break free from a life heavily impacted by alcoholism
About our Guest -
I grew up in Exeter, Devon and lived with my parents and 2 older sisters. I didn't really have a troubled life but from a young age I discovered alcohol and my journey into addiction began.
Drugs and alcohol consumed my life from that point on. It got so bad that I thought I would either end up in prison, a psychiatric unit or dead. Either by someone else killing me or succeeding in killing myself.
I managed to find a way to recover and now live a clean sober life. You could say the complete opposite of how I lived before.
I'm hoping now that if I share my experience through writing books I can help to inspire anyone that change is possible.
The Book: Me and My Addiction tells the intense, but overall positive, account of one man’s battle to break free from a life heavily impacted by alcoholism. This thought-provoking book gives the reader a no holds barred, insight into addictions, and their power to change people’s lives, often without the victim realizing until it’s too late.
Stewart’s reflection of the problems around addiction, along with his real, raw and (brutally!) honest stories will open your mind to see life through the eyes of an addict.
If you think you, or maybe someone you know, may have an issue with alcohol it provides answers to the questions that many are afraid to ask, a deeper understanding of how addiction works, along with hope that it’s possible to break the cycle of destruction and to turn your life around.
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EPISODE 236 - Susan Salenger - SIDELINED - How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health
DON'T MAKE ANOTHER HEALTHCARE DECISION WITHOUT READING THIS BOOK
"If men had cramps, they'd have cured this by now..."
"I told my doctors about my pain for years, but they told me it was all in my head..."
"My doctor removed my IUD without anesthesia because 'there aren't any nerve endings in there.' Boy, was he wrong!"
These and countless other comments from women who've suffered at the hands of the healthcare industry are frighteningly common... but they don't have to be.
Sidelined: How Women Manage & Mismanage Their Health discloses how women have been marginalized and hesitate to take control over their own healthcare. But what's behind this nationwide medical crisis? Too often, women downplay or ignore their symptoms to avoid being "difficult," often blaming themselves for serious illness.
The end result could be inferior care, which can lead to serious consequences.
In Sidelined, writer and researcher Susan Salenger explains why women are misdiagnosed more often than men, and why their symptoms often go unrecognized or even disputed. This book teaches readers how to take charge of their health, make informed decisions, and leave their appointments with answers instead of just questions.
Knowing how to advocate for your own healthcare can mean the difference between healthy outcomes and years of needless agony, or even death.
This important women's health book equips readers with the knowledge, language, and skill sets they need to overcome the gender bias that is present in the medical industry and get the best healthcare possible.
About the Author
Susan Salenger was born and raised in Los Angeles, and for more than twenty-five years owned Salenger Films, which produced corporate training and development films and distributed them around the world, with her husband. Sue wrote the scripts and the workbooks that accompanied the films. Once her children had grown up and she had some time for herself, Sue took some anthropology classes at UCLA. Her final project for one of those classes was a study of women who had undergone hysterectomies; that study was the catalyst for this book.
Sue’s wonderful husband has passed away, but she has two fabulous daughters and four incredible grandchildren. They all live in Petaluma, California, and see each other often.
https://www.susansalenger.com/
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E235 - Rae Wright - Hiring an Illustrator, Canva Tips and Growing as an Author
Rae is an artist and educator with a background in early childhood education and children’s mental health. With almost ten years experience in the field working with children ages 0-6, she has seen first hand the power of creativity.
Rae left the ECE field due to a health setback and followed her passion for art, teaching art classes to children and adults.
As a wildlife and portrait artist, Rae has honed her skills over the years, capturing the beauty and essence of the natural world and individuals she paints. Rae strives to portray the emotions of her subjects whether it’s a loved one, a beloved pet, or a client seeking a unique portrait. Each piece is approached with dedication and care to capture a personality and story. Occasionally delving in to architectural subjects, Rae is fascinated by intricate details. Her artwork aims to evoke wonder and appreciation.
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E234 - Kim Herdman Shapiro - A Canadian Export to the US and an Inside Look Into The Vatican
About Kim Herdman Shapiro
She is an author, journalist, graphic artist, and vlogger. She has worked in both print and broadcast journalism, as well as creating one of the first ever digital e-zines with her Microsoft Award-winning travel site, Footloose.
Although she grew up in Vancouver, she has lived and traveled to many different places around the world. Some of these places are detailed in her book, Gelato with the Pope: and other adventures of a travel writer in Europe. She has spent the last seven years filming across Canada for What the Hell is a Toque: and other questions on the great Canadian roadtrip, where she shows her two sons what it means to be Canadian.
For the past twenty years, she has lived with her husband and sons in New England.
At present, her writing life is focused on her two mystery series, both based in the British Columbia of her childhood. She also serves on the board of Sisters in Crime New England and works as their Public Relations Director.
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E233 - Janie Paul - Finding Humanity in Art - Making Art in Prison - Survival and Resistance
Making Art In Prison: Survival And ResistanceThe United States is the most incarcerating nation in the world. Over two million people are locked behind bars, where they endure the degradation and violence of a dehumanizing system. But in prisons around the country, incarcerated people have regained their dignity by creating objects of beauty, meaning, and value. In Making Art in Prison: Survival and Resistance, Janie Paul introduces readers to the culture and aesthetics of prison art communities, and shares heart wrenching, poignant, and often surprisingly humorous artists’ narratives. These powerful stories and images upend the manufactured stereotypes of those living in prison, imparting a real human dimension—a critical step in the movement to end mass incarceration. For 27 years, Paul has traveled throughout Michigan to meet artists and select work for the project she co-founded: The Annual Exhibitions of Artists in Michigan Prisons, an initiative of the Prison Creative Arts Project at the University of Michigan. Pedagogical as well as curatorial, the project has provided crucial validation for the artists. Making Art in Prison features over 200 images of their extraordinary work. Delving deeply into the ways in which incarcerated artists create meaning through their artistic practice, Paul explains how the making, sharing, and formation of artistic friendships within prisons can constitute acts of resistance against the violence and banality of prison life. Most of the artists did not make art before coming to prison. Their accomplishments show that art making need not be a privilege of the few, but is rather a basic human need, and in these circumstances, a necessary means of survival. Making Art in Prison reveals—through the eyes of the artists who have lived through it—what mass incarceration looks and feels like in the United States. It reveals the ways in which they keep their humanity intact; it invites us to reflect on our own humanity and the problem of living in a country that incarcerates more of its population than any other nation in the world. It also invites us to look closely at the images and appreciate the richness of life and luminosity emerging from the darkest corner of our country.https://lsa.umich.edu/pcaphttps://www.janiepaul.com/___https://livingthenextchapter.com/podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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E232 - Illa Lynn - UNCOVER AUTHENTIC YOU - A Guide to Self- Acceptance and Self-Discovery for Women
BOOK - https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/uncover-authentic-you-illa-lynn/1142849093
Overview
- Are you told to love yourself?
- Are you told to stop being a people pleaser and not to let people walk all over you?
- Are you told to put yourself first?
- Are you struggling to know who you are?
- Are you anxious in your relationships, always clinging to your partner to validate you?
- Are you having a hard time saying No to people?
- Are you feeling lost, not knowing who you are anymore?
If you said yes to any of the above, this book is for you.
We are told to do all of the above, but no one tells us how.
This guide was created to show you the exact steps of how to love yourself, accept yourself and find out who you truly are. It teaches you how to stop being a people pleaser and how to take off the mask you have worn for so long.
If you want to be happy and live an authentic life, the steps in this guide are for you.
At the end of the book, you will be ready to step into your power with a clear plan and steps to build your new amazing life on authenticity integrity and conviction.
When you know who you truly are and where you are going, you will feel unstoppable in your pursuit for Happiness, Joy and Success in Life and Love.
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E231 - Janet Hurley - Glove Shy, the story of Brian and his Fighting Career Inside and Outside the Ring
Glove Shy: A Sister's ReckoningThe heartbeat of family life is the thump of fists on a heavy bag.
In the 1970s, Janet Hurley’s older brother, Brian, was the teenage protégé of a World Heavyweight Champion who lived in their hometown. Brian was a young man of brilliance and wit. His talents were broad, yet boxing was the path he chose. And, soon enough, family life revolved around his training, his bouts, his future: Olympic medals? A pro career?
Glove Shy is a tender-tough memoir, a loving look at how a sport as elemental as boxing can obscure the powerful forces this family never saw coming. But, when one of your own is in the ring, slugging, being slugged, what else can matter?
Glove Shy is a well-told story of what happens when the blows hit far beyond the ropes. Hurley is a talented writer, with strong and vivid prose. She is also brave, willing to get in the ring with her own past.
About the Author
Janet Hurley was born and raised in the Hudson Valley of upstate New York before heading south to Carolina (the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) for its undergraduate creative writing program. She has lived in the south ever since, most recently in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Western NC, where she and her husband David raised their daughter, Maren, and son, Liam.
After receiving an MFA in Creative Non-fiction from Lesley University in Cambridge, MA, in 2008, Janet published feature stories and profiles for North Carolina-based magazines, Our State and VERVE. She also ran a small business, True Ink, which provided creative opportunities for young writers. In 2011, she co-founded Asheville Writers in the Schools and Community (AWITSC), a non-profit committed to racial equity and social change through the power of arts, culture and restorative self-expression. And, from 2013-2016, she taught creative non-fiction and writing for the media as an adjunct in the undergraduate writing program at Warren Wilson College. The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic forced many transitions, including, fortunately, a re-focus on her own writing.
Glove Shy: A Sister’s Reckoning is Janet’s first book-length publication. She lives in Asheville, NC with her husband David and their dog, Wilson.
https://www.janethurley.me/
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E230 - Dave Bahr - Author of Prave - the Adventures of the Blind and the Brittle
Dave Bahr is an author, speaker, and comedian focused on demystifying the public’s perception of how to interact with people with disabilities. As the founder of In-Sightful Living, Dave works as an accessibility consultant, aiding organizations to enhance their systems, environments, events, and cultures to be supportive of people with disabilities. Blind from birth, he teaches that having a disability is not a hindrance, but an asset.
Dave holds a B.A. in Psychology and a Masters of Historical Musicology from the University of Colorado at Boulder and is proud to have studied with the Coaches Training Institute to further his personal development and leadership skills.
Dave’s funny and often irreverent wit allows him to use storytelling to illustrate that people should not be afraid of disability. He encourages curiosity, tact, and humor over political correctness, fear, and ignorance. Outside of accessibility and advocacy, he is passionate about music and baseball.
PRAVE = Priscilla + Dave. Meet Priscilla and Dave—two headstrong people with very different but complementary disabilities. When they met, fireworks flashed, but they soon became inseparable and each other’s "other half." Together, they attacked and overcame every obstacle in their way—and had one hell of a time doing it. Follow the story of their fiery love affair among moments of raucous laughter, fear, joy, sadness, and incredulity at people's behavior. Share their passion as persons with disabilities who refused to accept limitations on living life to the fullest. PRAVE = Proud
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E229 - Stacey Newman Weld - Pirates and Chocolate - Stories That Are Missing From History
Chocolate Adventure Mentor. Author of upcoming chocolate & pirate books. Chocolate Pairing events.
Adventures in chocolate? Definitely! Creating an adventure mindset includes being curious, trying new things and trying familiar things differently. Chocolate is a great starting point. (It’s chocolate – so it can be an adventure at any point!). Since being told that the cacao bean is my spirit animal, I have learned about chocolate in-depth. From seminars at Harvard University, to touring “fincas” in Central America, to conducting countless chocolate pairings and beyond – I love exploring it all. And sharing with you!
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EPISODE 228 - Jaclyn Whitt - Turn Your Book Into a Movie, The Steps to Follow and Setting Up your Imdb Account
Jaclyn Whitt Co-Director of the Family Friendly Screenwriting Academy joins us to talk about how to turn your book into a movie!
The goal of Family Friendly Screenwriting Academy is to help find and showcase quality writing; to raise the standard of scriptwriting in the Family Friendly film genre, and help launch and advance screenwriting careers. New and experienced writers can take screenwriting classes and workshops; enter screenwriting contests and festivals, or hire a script consultant.
There is a growing demand for Family Friendly films. The market is crying out for more conservative, yet still compelling content. Family Friendly Screenwriting Academy believes that when writers see growth both in their level of writing, and in their opportunities, they’re able to provide the content that the market is begging for.
We help you get affordable feedback from other writers, and learn techniques from professional instructors that you can immediately use to refine your script, increase your writing skill, and advance your career!
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E227 - Mark Craven - Author of Dads, Kiss Your Sons - Kindle and Demonstrate Your Love to Your Family
Mark Craven is the author of Dads, Kiss Your Sons and several other self-help titles. He has worked in higher education for more than a decade assisting college students in achieving their academic goals. Mark has worked at the University of Southern California, Carnegie Mellon University, and has spent most of his career at the Community College of Allegheny County as a mathematics instructor and senior advisor. He completed his BSc in Biology at Carlow University and his MEd in Higher Education Leadership at the University of Pittsburgh. Mark lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania with his family.
The Book: Dads, Kiss Your Sons
Terrified to Become a Dad? So Was I.
Fear is often our first response when we discover we are going to be fathers. We talk to just about everyone we know or search for quick answers to give us some sense of confidence to see our way through the unknown ahead. But what if you didn’t have a dad? What if you didn’t have role models to follow? What if the whole idea of being a dad is so completely foreign to you that quantum mechanics seems easier to master? That’s my story along with becoming everything to my son that I never had growing up.
As a teacher and coach in higher education, Mark Craven has researched numerous behavioral studies as well as the biology of neurological systems pointing to insights for new and expectant dads to adhere in Dad’s, Kiss Your Sons, bringing a whole new level of significance to being a dad.
The current generation of dads has made fatherhood a part of their self-identity. They are seeking resources and feeling that there aren’t enough content-related resources available to them.
Reach out to him on Instagram @_mark_craven_ or his website www.DadsKissYourSons.com
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E226 - Julie Riga - Stay on Course The Life and Legacy of Ennio Riga, Chef to the Stars
When Ennio Riga passed away in February of 2016, he left behind an incredible legacy. To his many admirers who enjoyed his delicious culinary creations, he was a world-renowned chef.
To Julie Riga, he was a loving father who taught her the importance of leadership, perseverance, and determination.
About the Author
Julie Riga, Ennio’s daughter, continues his legacy as a leadership coach, trainer, speaker, and author. In compiling the stories for the book, Julie carries on Ennio’s tradition by helping others reflect, and then decisively act on, their own calls to greatness.
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E225 - Wendy Jo Cerna - Stories Have Always Captivated My Heart
Host of the So God Told You To Write a Book - Now What PodcastFrom the bedtime stories my dad read to me and my brothers, to the required reading of various literature classes, to the novels consumed in the quiet of the night, stories have always captivated my heart.
Growing up in Minnesota as the daughter of educators, at times I found myself in the back seat of a station wagon travelling on family vacations during a break in the school-year calendar. My two older brothers were the perfect companions on these journeys. The eldest had an uncanny ability to map out our routes to ensure that we investigated and enjoyed as many aspects of our outings as was humanly possible. And the middle brother was my built-in entertainment. He and I engrossed ourselves in developing talk-shows and other narratives that required quirky characters, funny voices and distinct accents.
But it was not until January of 2015, when a divine prompting dropped from the blue into my heart, that I even entertained the notion of writing a novel. Frankly, I didn’t know if I could. But with my children all grown and my husband’s business requiring less and less of my attention, space had finally opened up for me to do what I had in my heart to do. So, I chose to give myself to learning the process of moving a story up out of my heart and onto the pages of a book. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that the quirky characters, interesting settings, and imaginative realms that once intrigued me as a young person should now bubble up in my books. It reminds me that our Heavenly Creator is very intentional about our earthly journey.
As I write, I sometimes feel as if I am still travelling in the back seat of a station wagon with my Jesus at the wheel and my characters as my companions filling my heart with their stories as we traverse both life on the planet and that which is to come. Can’t wait to see what’s up around the bend.
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E224 - Valencia Joy - Author of I Met a Guy, and Other Things You Can Only Discuss with Your Sister Girlfriends
Valencia Joy, affectionately known as Vee, is best known for her witty comebacks, inspiring others to Stay in Their Joy because God said they could, and for sparking healthy relationship debates between the opposite sexes. Forever a conversationalist and a lover of the wonderful, and sometimes complicated, world of being a female, Vee is bringing the conversation to your home. Do you need to wail to God? Vee will pray on your behalf. Would you like to slap Eve? Vee has saved you a space in line. Have you met a guy? It’s time to spill the tea.
I Met a Guy...: and Other Things You Can Only Discuss with Your Sister Girlfriends
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Welcome to August 2023 - A quick update and how you can help the show!Welcome to August 2023! Three episodes a week await you this month! Great interviews with amazing authors from around the world.
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E223 - How Authors Can Leverage and Repurpose Their Interviews for Maximum Impact Long After the Podcast Interview
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E222 - Vanessa Cardenas - Overcoming Betrayal and Healing with a Trusted Advisor
About the Author
Vanessa Cardenas is a Trusted Advisor for Betrayal & Transformation. Her own personal experience with betrayal has given her a unique understanding and empathy for her clients' struggles, making her an invaluable resource for those seeking healing. Vanessa's approach is rooted in lived-through experience, extensive study, deep empathy, and compassionate understanding.
Dealing with the Devastation of Your Partner's Betrayal: What to Do When Your World Falls Apart is an essential, quick read, practical guide that will help you to understand and cope with your feelings, and to start the process of healing and moving forward. Vanessa Cardenas' empathic and compassionate tone along with her years of experience as a trusted advisor makes her the perfect guide for anyone who is struggling with the pain of betrayal.
www.UnderstandingEar.com
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E221 - Debbie Gail Zane - Rebuilding After the Loss of Her Son, Finding Joy Through The Tears
Returning Guest, Debbie Gail Zane’s life changed forever when she received a telephone call informing her that her 26-year-old son, Alex, had been found dead. Just nine years before, he had been diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and begun using drugs. Throughout his battle with mental illness and addiction, she discovered how to find peace in her life and love him and herself during the many challenges.
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E220 - Danielle Fliller - Voice Acting and Audio Books, Bring Stories to Life in an Audio Space
About Danielle
I have a full-time career in education, but am looking to break into the voice-over realm! This is an organic journey that I would like to explore after years of doing phone recordings and morning announcements at various schools. I am professional and attentive to details and deadlines. Looking forward to working with you!
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E219 - Jo-Ann Oosterman - The Story of Tom - The Homeless Man of Many Pockets and His Art
The Book: Tom’s Story: My 16 Year Friendship with a Homeless
Tom’s Story is about the author’s friendship with Tom Hogan, a First Nations man who was perpetually homeless, a self-described chronic alcoholic, and a person who had episodes of psychosis. He was also a great storyteller and a gifted Woodland style artist.
Jo-Ann first met Tom in 1998 when she volunteered to co-ordinate an art group for people who were homeless. She was an outreach worker and an HIV counsellor at the time. During the sixteen years of their friendship, she spent countless weekend and evening hours sitting on sidewalks beside Tom, listening and observing, then heading home to write it all down.
With Tom’s permission, she wrote about the hard realities of his life – a traumatic childhood, sleeping in bug-infested shelters, or panhandling in the sub-zero weather for just one more bottle. She became Tom’s ally when he entered and left recovery programs, or simply searched for a safe place to live. Sometimes she helped; sometimes she got in the way. Other times, she tried to walk away, but she was always compelled to seek him out again to follow his story.
Tom’s Story is a unique and raw window into the lives of people who are homeless and marginalized because of addictions, mental illness, and generational trauma. This book is a testament to the power of hope, friendship, the generosity of people who own nothing, and using art to promote healing. It is also a strong argument for the harm-reduction model of managed-alcohol programs.
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E218 - James Francis - Writing Your Story While Running The Race, Men's Mental Health and Battling Being Alone
The Book: here's Coffee in the Fridge: One Man's Journey Through Anxiety and Depression
Does our past define us? Or does it merely serve to inform our future?
At its heart, this book is a story of overcoming anxiety and depression, as well as suicidal tendencies and attempts. With a remarkably candid approach, peppered with dry humor and keen observation, author James Francis takes us on a journey that is all at once deep, dark, twisting, and ultimately so very redemptive.
One part gripping memoir, and one part how-to guide, you will come away with tools such as:
A better understanding of anxiety and depression
Ideas for a roadmap to personal mental health
Exploration of personal and romantic relationship dynamics in regard to mental health
Notable authors to read on the journey to healing
Music suggestions to stir your soul and learn from
A reality check on the uniqueness of each person’s journey
And so much more…
This is a book of triumph, a victory over mental health struggles earned through the hardest of trials. You can use your past to create a healthier future too - it starts here, it starts now.
About James Francis
James Francis is an entrepreneur and professional speaker. He has been a successful executive starting and running several businesses in the well-being and insurance markets.
He grew up on Long Island and he and his family have lived on the shoreline of Connecticut for over 28 years.
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E217 - Nick Stitle and his first book in a four-part series called Stormless
Nick Stitle is a young, rising author with several projects in development.
Nick is seventeen years old, and while Stormless is his first “real” book, it is far from the first story that he has ever told.
After spending nearly all of my middle school years and the first half of my high school career writing novels and building worlds of myth, I am finally ready to share my works with the world.
I live in Indiana, with my mom and dad, my older brother, and my two dogs.
Stormless, the first installment of a massive high fantasy series, is in the final editing stages. Stormless welcomes readers into the world of Auris, a continent ripe with epic histories, unique magic systems, and complex characters. The second of four installments is in the final editing stages as well.
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E216 - Dominique Krystal Dawn - From Law Enforcement to Authorship with Stormey Knights
About the Author
Dominique Krystal Dawn is a sage that uses creative storytelling to dive deeper into the personal motivations and pain point perspectives masked as ordinary life decisions. She was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, where she learned the tough spiritual lessons that each soul must grow through. Dominique desires to reignite hope and facilitate healing and self-realization in each reader so that despite their beginning, they can get back on purpose and live a fulfilling life.
Why is life so hard?
That’s the question that Stormey Knights can’t stop asking herself. She doesn’t know her father, and her mother, Amber, has been prostituting to support her drug habit ever since Stormey can remember.
Up until recently, Stormey and her sister, Skye, were best friends but now, Stormey doesn’t know where their relationship lies. Skye started running the streets with her boyfriend, a drug dealer only concerned with fast money and expensive items and it’s only a matter of time before Skye gets caught up.
Worrying about everyone else is making it hard for Stormey to live out her dream and become an artist, a dream that her friend, Ace, supports heavily. But when tragedy strikes his family, she's nervous that he might take the wrong path, too.
The only consistently good thing in her life is her aunt, Jewel, but even Stormey knows that Aunt Jewel won’t be around forever. What will it take for Stormey and her family to come together and turn their lives around?
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E215 - Alex Holland - Carving Out Time to Write a Colourful Six Novel Series
My name is Alex - I have been a lover of sci-fi and fantasy all my life. I was raised on Tolkien, Final Fantasy 7, Monty Python and mountains of movies, books & video games. I've always loved stories and the telling of them, how they can move and shape us. As I got older I fell in love with psychology and the writing of stories, like the heroes journey framework from Joseph Campbell. After many, many years of consuming, I finally managed to pull myself away from the shiny internet and make something that combined everything into The Prism Hexology
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E214 - Valencia Joy - Author of I Met a Guy, and Other Things You Can Only Discuss with Your Sister Girlfriends
Valencia Joy, affectionately known as Vee, is best known for her witty comebacks, inspiring others to Stay in Their Joy because God said they could, and for sparking healthy relationship debates between the opposite sexes. Forever a conversationalist and a lover of the wonderful, and sometimes complicated, world of being a female, Vee is bringing the conversation to your home. Do you need to wail to God? Vee will pray on your behalf. Would you like to slap Eve? Vee has saved you a space in line. Have you met a guy? It’s time to spill the tea.
I Met a Guy...: and Other Things You Can Only Discuss with Your Sister Girlfriends
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E200 - Dominick Domasky - Author and Publisher, Friend of the Show - The Basics for New Authors on Getting Published
Dominick Domasky is an inspirational author, YouTube host, sales expert, and the founder of the inspiration sharing and publishing platform Motivation Champs. Dominick is the author of the inspirational books, The Journey of a Grunt and Don’t Double Bread the Fish, and creator and co-author of the hit books The Unofficial Guide to Fatherhood and Go Ask Your Dad. Recently, he released the hard-hitting eBook How to Write a Book in 2020 and immediately it became a Bestseller on Amazon. Dominick’s greatest accomplishments are his two children, and he aspires to be the best husband and father he can be.
Mr. Domasky arrived at inspirational story writing and motivational speaking with a unique background. As a boy, Dominick learned the value of hard work pulling weeds and doing odd jobs in the fields of his father’s landscape company. He took those lessons of hard work and placed them into his passions, and carried it throughout every aspect of his life from basketball to business.
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E199 - Cynthia Newberry Martin - Using a Blog and a Book Tour to Support Your Books and The Importance of a Great Book Cover
Book Bio
Cynthia Newberry Martin’s (she/her/hers) first novel, Tidal Flats, won the Gold Medal in Literary Fiction at the 2020 Independent Publisher Book Awards and the 14th Annual National Indie Excellence Award for Fiction. Her website features the How We Spend Our Days series, over a decade of essays by writers on their lives. She grew up in Atlanta and now lives in Columbus, Georgia, with her husband, and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, in a little house by the water. Her third novel, The Art of Her Life, will be published in June of 2023.
MORE ABOUT ME
I write novels about relationships, about how characters navigate between separateness and togetherness. About how they balance the need for both time to themselves and time together. About what compromise does to a person’s sense of self.
My early stories, essays, and reviews appeared in Hunger Mountain, Brevity, Gargoyle, Contrary Magazine, Clapboard House, Storyglossia, and Numéro Cinq. For a number of years, which I think of as my crazy years, I served as the Review Editor for Contrary Magazine AND the Writing Life Editor for Hunger Mountain AND I was in graduate school AND in a writing group.
In 2012 I graduated from Vermont College of Fine Arts with an MFA in Creative Writing. Later that year, I was awarded a residency at Ragdale, where I stayed in the Playroom and threw pages from the tower down the stairs… In 2013, because Pam Houston and Karen Nelson needed a third body, I became a founding board member of the literary nonprofit Writing by Writers. The workshops are set in gorgeous places with excellent faculty, and you will find me there selling faculty books.
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E198 - Kelly Glenn - What a Woman - My Story for God's Glory
Book: What A Woman: My Story for God’s Glory
You do not have to be fixed to be faithful or perfect to be perfected.
Resting on a bed swing on a large wrap-around porch with a ceiling fan and a cold glass of lemonade is a welcome reprieve on a hot summer day. This has never been Kelley Glenn's desire. It is tantamount to a movie fantasy and requires too much daydreaming in a world where she fends off physical abuse and sexual assault. Mars and Pluto are probably closer than the faraway places she hides to stay out of harm's way. Kelley escapes to these mental hideaways while the ones who are supposed to love and protect her, violate her. With a hole in her soul, she jumps out of the childhood frying pan, right into the fire when she marries a charmer.
Many wonder why abused intimate partners do not leave or report the abuse. In her memoir, What a Woman: My Story for God's Glory, Ms. Glenn invites readers to be a fly on the wall and witness what abused partners face. Kelley's journey to believe there is a realm of possibility greater than the only ones she has had since birth takes courage. There are times when she is too broken to see past the moment, or look in a mirror and see anything good. Her gaze changes direction as she looks to the one in whom she has confidence.
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E197 - Jillian Abby - Author of Perfectly Queer - Holding The Door and Space For Others, How To Be A Better Human
Returning to the podcast, Jillian Abby is here to talk about the launch of her new book - Perfectly Queer.
This is a story for--
Anyone who is hiding a piece of themselves and wants to know if it’s safe to be revealed.
The parent who must choose between their own happiness and the stability of their family, wondering if prioritizing themselves is selfish.
The person potentially facing a major life upheaval filled with unknowns in the future who is seeking reassurance that everything will work out just fine.
Those who are starting or are in the middle of their journey and need hope and inspiration.
Those who have been through it, to stand proudly affirmed on the other side.
Jillian Abby has mastered reinvention throughout her life to create the most whole and satisfying journey. She left the comfort of her hometown of Buffalo, NY, to study abroad in Cochabamba, Bolivia, at age 15. As an adult, her resume includes Certified Public Accountant, Licensed Massage Therapist, craft beer bar owner, creative copywriter, homeschooling parent, and black belt martial artist.
Her most recent role as a newly out lesbian and advocate for the LGBTQ+ community was by far her riskiest and most rewarding change. She serves as a committee member for Tampa’s first inclusive homeschool prom (@tbhive) and is a member of Tampa’s LGBT Chamber of Commerce and Babe Crafted. She supports others through her blog site QueerAbby.com and via TikTok at @AskQueerAbby.
Jillian lives in Tampa Bay with her partner, Jen, their wildly wacky children, Sophie and Ollie, and a rescue cat named Poe.
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E196 - Alan Black - From Song Writer to Author, Start With a Blank Canvas and Share The Story You Create
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Alan was raised and grew up in the United Methodist Church. While I do proudly embrace my background and personal history within the United Methodist Church, I do feel that ultimately what is important is not the denomination that you are a part of. What matters most is the relationship that you have with the Lord. Part and parcel to any relationship is the level of commitment that one makes to it. With any and all relationships they are going to take time to grow.
Through the years, if I were to describe my relationship with the Lord using one word it would be “transformation.” Continuing to grow daily in my walk with the Lord, and as well continue to display the fruits of his Spirit daily is for me what my life is all about.
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EPISODE 195 - James MacDonald Author of First Time Dad and Host of Dad Mind Matters - Parenting, Marriage & Mental Health For Men
About James Macdonald
I am James Macdonald and 5 years ago, I was stressed and overwhelmed at my role as a husband and (exhausted) father of 3, not really knowing how to be the best man I could be.
Many years, pitfalls and enough flat whites to sink a battleship later, I’m a lot happier and confident and on a mission to help other dads be the best family man they can be without losing their minds.
First Time Dad is for the new(ish) dads who feel totally overwhelmed at their new responsibility and feel like their mental health is on a slow and silent decline.
Book: First Time Dad: The 42-Week Guide For Men To Help Your Partner Have A Calm & Confident Pregnancy
If you want to effectively support your partner during pregnancy, and strengthen your relationship and mental health, keep reading...
If you're going to be a dad, congratulations, that's awesome!
That said, if you worry about this life-changing experience negatively affecting your mental health, you'd be right to. Recent statistics show that up to 50% of all new dads experience depression if their partner gets postnatal depression.
Are you concerned your little blessing might drive a baby-shaped wedge between you? Then your spidey senses are on the money because studies show that dads are three times more likely to die after a relationship breakdown than women.
Are you anxious that the general stress of family life might damage your mental health? This is a justified concern as suicide is the single biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. If any of these concerns resonate with you, don't worry; you're in safe, albeit slightly weathered, hands. James Macdonald is a happy and mostly calm dad of three.
In First Time Dad you’ll learn:
Week-to-week explanations of what’s happening for your baby and inside your partner
How to be a big help, not a major hindrance, during the delivery
How to help your partner get physically fit and ready for birth
What to expect at your 12 and 20-week scans
How to keep her & your sense of humor during those high-pressure moments
How to mentally prepare for the birth if you're squeamish
What to do when you need reassurance but don't want to burden her
Advice on having sex and maintaining intimacy throughout pregnancy
How to keep calm when all hell is breaking loose
What a birth plan is and how to prepare one
What nesting is and how to use it to your advantage
What you can do to develop, strengthen and prepare your mental health for the big day and beyond it
What you need to do & say to ensure everyone’s mental health remain
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EPISODE 194 - Cori Sykes - Author and Publisher Provides A Master Class for New Authors on Working With a PublisherMeet Cori Sykes | Author & Owner of Write and Vibe Publishing
Write and Vibe (Vibes) is an independent publishing company in Cleveland, Ohio, founded in 2020 by Cori Sykes. Vibes was originally slated to open as a writer’s only co-working location in Cleveland, Ohio, but due to COVID-19, plans were halted, adjusted, and changed to allow Vibes to press forward.
As an independent publisher, Vibes is a proud member of the Independent Book Publishers Association and follows the strict guidelines set by them in order to publish quality works that authors can be proud of. Our flexible packages allow authors to find an affordable plan that will bring their manuscript to life.
When you work with us, regardless of whether you select an a-la-carte service or a full service package, you can rest assured knowing that we strive to make sure that your books can compete in the marketplace right next to those that have been traditionally published. After all, whether you’re a debut or seasoned author, you should only have to worry about writing. Let’s get lit!
Website: https://writeandvibe.com
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EPISODE 193 - Tess Scott - battling boys in adolescence, breast cancer and the loneliness of an extrovert working from home
More About Tess Scott
Tess Scott is a Christian speaker, an award-winning author, and a former black sheep turned “Jesus Girl.” With humour and vulnerability, this Canadian mom of 8 is on mission to help other women with messy stories to shed their shame by teaching them who they are in Christ, so they will embrace the power of God in their imperfect lives.
Tess has lived through multiple divorces, married her husband twice, and watched in awe as God has guided her through breast cancer, bathroom renovations and menopausal hormones. Her redeemed life screams of the prodigal daughter unmistakably chosen, and it’s this hope, this story of redemption and God’s indisputable faithfulness that Tess brings to encourage women. Her first book “Listen, Sister! Finding Hope in The Freakshow of Life” (Morgan James Publishers) launched June 2022. When she’s not on the road spreading hope and laughter, Tess continues the next phase of hilariously awkward moments in Sarnia Ontario to the ongoing embarrassment of her family.
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EPISODE 192 - Jane Frkovich - Urban Fantasy and Science Fiction and a New Podcast To Support Her Writings
Welcome to the urban fantasy and science fiction world of author Jane Frkovich
Goddess of Rain, Part 1 in the Lost Gods Series - Available Now!
Since Zoe leaving high school, Zoe’s life has been going nowhere. She spends her days working at the grocery store, being friend-zoned by her fellow grocery worker Brandon Chan, and obsessively crushing on handsome and rich Colton Chase, who sometimes visits the store.
One day in line for frozen yogurt, she bumps into Colton Chase and she is thrilled to find out he knows her name. Then, she goes to the park and finds her long dead mom alive and well. It turns out her mom didn’t die but was travelling the universe with the Greek god Zeus. If her mom’s boyfriend is Zeus, then who is her mom? Zoe’s not sure if her mom was kidnapped or if she abandoned her. Her mom has returned to whisk Zoe away in Zeus’s space ship because the earth is falling apart and will soon be uninhabitable. Suddenly, Zoe is plunged into the world of lost gods.
Underworld Rising
When Zoe stood on the edge of a volcano and chose between two loves, one a god and one a man, she may have sealed the fate of the earth. And the earth is in trouble.
The Lost Gods Series continues with Underworld Rising. Earth’s climate is under attack because of Hephaestus’ curse. On top of that, the world is on the verge of war with the Underworld because the goddess Hera has stirred up the ancient hatred between Cyclopes and humans. Hera will stop at nothing, even the destruction of the earth’s people, to destroy Zoe, the daughter of the woman who stole Zeus’s heart. It may all come down to the choices Zoe makes with her own heart. She has an important destiny and it will determine the fate of the world.
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EPISODE 191 - Helen Zee - fertility, intimacy and menstrual health practitioner for women and men who wish to enhance their relationship
Helen Zee is passionate about creating a future world of conscious relationships and parenting by firstly exploring intimacy of thyself. As a Fertility Intimacy and Menstrual Health Practitioner she helps open the pathway of higher expression of our truest nature. Supporting the emergence of satisfying relationships, optimizing lifestyle and using conscious conception for optimizing fertility. Helen challenges the status quo of “stuckness and stagnation” to create newness and flow. Helen engages with couples and singles, and welcomes invitations from private and the public health sector. People call her “all heart and presence”. She has an innate ability to listen beyond the primary layers and offer insights into behavioural change. Helen offering includes workshops, private consulting, retreats and welcomes speaking opportunities on sexuality, transforming relationships and fertility. Helen is an author, speaker and here to transform the fertility sector into an empowered birth space of choice and radical growth.
Book: Consciously Conceive Your Baby: Inner Secrets to Boost Your Fertility and Getting Pregnant
Do you wish to birth your baby and relish a deep love and intimate connection reserved for sacred conception? Whether you are trying to conceive for the first time or you simply wish to explore the sacredness and mystery of conception, pregnancy, and relationships on a deeper level, Consciously Conceive Your Baby offers a unique opportunity to awaken your natural intuition and regain trust in your body's natural ability to conceive.
This groundbreaking book will empower you to get back in touch with your sensuality and nourish your relationship, strengthening your bond as future parents as you create your baby from the inside out. Once you know, you cannot un-know.
As you awaken the sacred process of conscious conception, you will discover ways to fine-tune your body, reconnect with nature, and make behavioral changes that will open your life up to conception.
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EPISODE 190 - Holly Curby - Author of Face Lift - Embracing Hope Through Your Heartaches
Book Info
In Face-Lift, Holly Curby provides insight into using social media as a positive outlet, showing how it helped her focus on her faith while overcoming her fears as she persevered through trials in her life. Face-Lift will equip you for your own personal growth, reminding you that no matter the challenges, you can embrace hope through your heartaches as you have a total Face-Lift.
Holly Curby is a contributing writer to the devotional magazine Journey, is a local life reporter for the City Journals in Utah, and has been interviewed by the New York Times, local network affiliates, and the Salt Lake Tribune, among others. Holly has received the Inspirational Award from the Chick-fil-A Foundation and served in many areas of ministry. Her twenty-five plus years in marketing, a master's degree in leadership and management, and serving in executive leadership roles have provided a platform for her to provide leadership coaching and host Holly's Highlights podcast. She currently serves as the director of community and culture at two Chick-fil-A franchises in Utah. Holly enjoys being with her family, traveling, and showing love and encouragement to those she meets.
Website: https://www.hollycurby.com/
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EPISODE 189 - Andy and Kayla Izard from The Raft Project - Building a Safe Community Where you Can Be REAL
This movement is a place
to let our walls down.
No hidden agendas. No pitches, preachers, or pledges. Just supporting others and allowing them to support us. We're building relationships with people who know us and genuinely care about us.
Our goal is to make connection a little easier – a tad less scary.
The Book: Good, and You?
Why is connection, vulnerability, and support so damn hard sometimes? How can we have more access to each other than ever, and still be so lonely? What will it take for us to open up about the things that actually matter?
In this lively manifesto/guidebook on connection, we'll talk about:
How to find safe people
If anyone even wants to support us
Why self-care isn't enough
How to protect ourselves and connect
How to start those deep conversations
If you’re ready to start working towards a new normal, this may be the book for you. Build your raft. We'd love for you to be a part of ours.
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EPISODE 188 - Rick Cua - Musician and Author of What Are You Known For - A Thirty One Day Journal Around Legacy
In a society that seeks fame and fortune above all, Rick Cua’s simple mission – to share the love of God through music – is a cool drink of water in a dry land. Add to that wide-ranging experience and wisdom gained from over thirty nine years in music ministry and business, along with a gift of encouragement and you have the components of an artist, teacher and speaker with a passion for helping others find their fullness in Christ.
Currently, Rick focuses his time on front-line ministry at Grace Chapel in Franklin, TN. He stays active in music through speaking, writing and publishing along with playing and recording with his long time band, Blues Counsel and recently releasing his 3rd book, What Are You Known For? 31-Day Devotional & Journal. All this to support his personal mission of sharing the power of God’s Word through music, the written and spoken word and hands on ministry.
Rick’s career as a musician has always carried the hallmark of an artist who passionately holds on to his Biblical convictions and communicates uplifting and straightforward messages to his audience. All of his songs are written with the intent to ultimately point to Christ.
“Music is such a motivator. When you put the truth in music, and you hit that emotional nerve, it works,” explains Rick. “I feel called to build people up. My goal is to take the Word and Godly principles and attach it to music that is going to get them excited, and want to sing along and want to believe in what they are hearing and what they are singing…as an artist, that’s what it’s all about.”
To that end, Rick continues to write and record new songs that have been born out of a progressive artistic vision. His involvement in the burgeoning praise and worship community over the years is definitely having an impact.
“Many of the songs I write are anthemic in nature; big choruses and a message that's motivating and uplifting. My hope has always been that after listening or singing along people will feel better about life, themselves and about the power of God working in and through them”
Originally from Syracuse, New York, Rick’s Italian heritage is apparent in his first instrument—as a young boy, he started on the accordion. He eventually moved on to the piano, trumpet, clarinet, guitar, and eventually settled on the bass—and rock music. Membership in early bands fed his musical obsession, and led to paying gigs by age 14 and an inevitable career choice.
What Are You Known For? Building Your Legacy One Brick At A Time
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EPISODE 187 - Trish Michael - Author of Children's Books that Teach Us To Love Ourselves and Her Mission to Be A Happy Mom
Written for her own kids at difficult times in their lives, Trish’s books empower, uplift and impart a positive message of self love, helping kids (and adults) to thrive through trauma, hardships and just daily life.
Three uplifting and empowering books; Find Your Happy, LIGHT and The Sorry Monster.
Find Your Happy - Finding happiness despite difficult circumstances
LIGHT - developing confidence in decision making, even when it’s hard
The Sorry Monster - creating self-worth and more meaningful communication
From young children coping with trauma, to troubled teens who might need a nudge towards owning their behavior, to adults who may have forgotten a bit of themselves along their way, these books make the perfect gift for any age!
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Julie Riga - Stay on Course The Life and Legacy of Ennio Riga, Chef to the Stars
When Ennio Riga passed away in February 2016, he left behind an incredible legacy. To his many admirers who enjoyed his delicious culinary creations, he was a world-renowned chef.
To Julie Riga, he was a loving father who taught her the importance of leadership, perseverance, and determination.
About the Author
Julie Riga, Ennio’s daughter, continues his legacy as a leadership coach, trainer, speaker, and author. In compiling the stories for the book, Julie carries on Ennio’s tradition by helping others reflect, and then decisively act on, their own calls to greatness.
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EPISODE 186 - Alyssa Berthiaume - Ghost Writing, Authoring Your Story and The Role of A.I. for Authors
Our guest:
I’m a professional writer, native Vermonter, practicing feminist, recovering middle child, wannabe superhero, and a mom who’s pretty sure she’s “winging it”. I’ve wanted to be a writer my whole life so it’s pretty damn cool that I made it. I’m the author of Dear Universe, I Get it Now: Letters on the Art and Journey of Being Brave and Being Me – which pretty much tells the whole story of my journey to this place.
I hold an M.F.A. in creative writing and am the Lady Boss Owner of The Write Place, Right Time, my virtual boutique of ghostwriting services. I pretty much spend all my time over there now, so you should go check it out.
If you can catch me not writing or thinking about writing, I’m probably drinking Maple Lattes, adding more books to my must-read list, watching The Princess Bride for the thousandth time, or solving a crime in the latest Hunt a Killer box set.
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EPISODE 185 - Miri Camphausen - A Children's book on How Four Misfit Animals Work Together
How can we heal ourselves? How can we tap into inner contentment? How can we move forward as humanity? How can we heal the planet?
I believe, the answers lie within each single one of us. To uncover our personal truth, we need to courageously face our inner selves; including the parts we don’t like.
… because, we all hold within us the darkness and the light.
Are you willing to fully see yourself? Are you ready to uncover the hidden? Do you want to return love and joy into your life?
It takes courage and stamina to step onto the path of self-realization. I know this, I’ve been there, and, actually, I still am. It has not always been easy. Still, I moved on, because I was inspired by others who told me ‘there will be light’. This kept me going. I am forever grateful for the souls helping me on my path!
This is why I share my own journey with you to inspire you, give you courage, bless you with faith, and the trust in your abilities. You are not alone in this. You can do this. I believe in you.
The Book: Heroes of the Quest - An Impossible Team
“Team! I am your leader on this Quest! Follow me!”
From the outset of their adventure, Master Mouse is hampered by his hilarious and calamitous teammates who don’t even recognize him as their leader. A mouse, a giraffe, a slug and … a pig ?!?
All perfectly imperfect, how can they possible compete against the mighty lions? Will they even finish the final challenge of Quest School?
Find out what really matters in the end …
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EPISODE 184 - Iris Angellys - Your Body is Trying To Tell You Something - Slow Down and Listen
DISCOVER THE NEW WAYS FOR WOMEN TO BE IN THE WORLD
“Passion to Thrive” is jam-packed full of insights and tools for you to discover your own depth, passion and purpose.
You can use it as a text, or you could take up the invitation of diving deep by using it as a work book and write your own answers on the pages provided.
I have also created a series of meditations that will help you become familiar with the archetypes and the energy, power and guidance they provide so you can draw on them as you need to.
This is especially useful for the ones you are currently unaware of or not used to drawing on.
The divine feminine has been suppressed in the Western world for centuries now, and as a result of our disregard for it and for Mother Earth we now live in a time of impending global catastrophe. We get bombarded with bad news all the time. Business-as-usual is just no longer an option.
So how can we respond to this situation?
How can women reclaim the breadth and depth of our worth and our unique way of being, experiencing, feeling and acting in the world, when up until recently we have been restricted and constrained in what we have been allowed to be and do?
In this book, Annika looks at different archetypes that can guide us through difficult situations and circumstances back to our own magnificent selves and to the divine feminine.
Each archetype has a particular way of being in the world, and it can inspire you to approach old, gnarly problems and situations in a new way.
Each archetype will guide and empower you to explore a different side to yourself, and allow you to realize what your strengths, talents and skills are and what gives your life meaning, passion and purpose.
Realize how you can live the most fulfilling life you can imagine for yourself by offering up your unique gift to the world, which you may not even have realized you had!
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EPISODE 183 - Kristina Bak - When The Character You Are Writing About Reaches Out and Touches You
Kristina Bak grew up in the Pacific Northwest, dropped out of Reed College in 1969, and spent enough years hiking in the North Cascades to graduate from Western Washington University in Bellingham. She explored utopias via Paolo Soleri’s Arcosanti and the University of New Mexico. A graduate degree in architecture at the University of Washington earned her a Fulbright year in Rome before she moved to Australia with her husband and six-month-old daughter for three years. Back in the US, the family lived on Bainbridge Island until Kristina graduated from Antioch, Seattle, with an MA in psychology. They moved to Bend, Oregon, in 1993. Since that time, Kristina has worked as a mental health therapist, taught qigong, and sojourned in Sydney again as a ghostwriter, among other things. She took her first Argentine Social Tango class in 2010, and like countless others, is addicted to the dance.
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EPISODE 182 - Reverend Rita M. Henderson The Spiritual Midwife and Author of 30 Days to Increased Faith
ABOUT ME
I am a four time Amazon best-selling author, speaker and self-publishing coach who helps Five-Fold Ministers plant the seeds of confidence, harvest their self-faith and clarify their life’s vision so that they can birth faith based businesses that serve, scale and succeed.
Also known as The Spiritual Midwife, I have taught hundreds of ministers how to birth their purpose and monetize their God ordained talents and acquired skill set by building successful faith-based businesses.
From coaching women on how to launch membership communities to providing hopeful entrepreneurs with the foundational tools to build profitable businesses, I continue to answer the call to assist fellow ministers in pursuing profit-generating, purpose-driven paths.
My own blossoming stemmed from a divine moment in 2011 that drove me away from the roads of hardship – $100K in debt, a foreclosed home and car repossession despite my having a good yet unfulfilling government job – and steered me straight into my own profitable faith-based business that allows me to live the emotionally, spiritually and financially free life that I have always dreamed of.
I am a renowned speaker and two-time best-selling Amazon author of 30 Days to Increased Faith: Increase Your Faith, Attract Gods Attention and Achieve Your Dreams and coauthor of the I RISE: Living Beyond the Bruises anthology.
I have a bachelor’s degree in Management and a master’s degree in Theology, I deliver soul-stirring sermons, workshops and on line bible study courses that wash away the muddy waters of hesitation and self-doubt, all so the divinely inspired can pave the path to passion and purpose.
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E181 - Jacqueline Williams, Author of By His Grace - A Memoir about surviving childhood domestic and sexual assault
Have you suffered as a result of a childhood trauma?
Does the pain and memory of those events still haunt you?
Are you struggling to see how it will ever improve?
The events of any childhood trauma are significant and when they aren’t addressed they can have a continued impact on the rest of our lives. Many people bury their feelings, suppress memories and hope that things will magically improve if they can simply forget about it and move on. But overcoming childhood trauma isn’t as impossible as it may first seem and this book aims to help you come to terms with it.
Inside the pages of By His Grace, author Jacqueline Williams recounts her own experiences of being beaten and sexually assaulted as a child, with chapters that are aimed at helping you to:
Find the support you need
Make sense of what happened
Prevent the incident from overwhelming your identity
Understand that it wasn’t your fault
See the reality of the situation
Use your experiences as a positive
And more…
It is Jacqueline’s belief that anyone can overcome childhood trauma when they have the right support with which to do so. From her own dark early years to transiting through the pain and eventually emerging on the other side, her book is one of survival.
And she wants you to do the same. To face the trauma you experienced head on, talk openly about it and know that you are never alone in your journey towards happiness.
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EPISODE 180 - Vanessa Campos, Co-Founder, Broad Book Group - Marketing Consulting, Writing, Copywriting, and Content Strategy
Vanessa Campos has served as marketing specialist and marketing and production manager allowing her to learn every aspect of book publishing. To date, she has helped launch more than 100 business books and counting.
Broad Book Group is a woman-owned publishing company specializing in helping nonfiction authors go from idea to final book. The team has a combined experience of more than 35 years in the book publishing industry.
Broad Book Group provides comprehensive editorial, project management, publishing, printing, branding, and marketing services. In addition, Broad Book Group provides writing and publishing support through robust educational courses.
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How Authors Can Leverage and Repurpose Their Interviews for Maximum Impact Long After the Podcast Interview
An update from Dave on the Podcast as we head into June of 2023
A highlight of some of our upcoming guests!
If you want the latest episodes as they happen, head over to our YouTube channel - there you will find full-length episodes of every past, current and future episodes of the show!
We also share a few tips for you as an author when guesting on podcasts, how you can repurpose your guesting spots and turn them into a podcast right on YouTube by simply compiling your guest interviews into a playlist. Also, take the free transcript offered by YouTube and pull it down and use your interview content to help you with your writings!
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E179 - Sandra Cooze - Release, Reconnect, Realign, Be healed from trauma
About the Author
Hi, my name is Sandra Cooze. I am an Intuitive Trauma Release & Self-Empowerment Coach, Reiki Master/Teacher, Traumatic Incident Reduction Facilitator, Meditation Teacher, Holistic Jewelry Designer and Published Author.
My passion and dedication for trauma healing was born as a result of my own traumatic past. Molested as a child, bullied in school, sexually assaulted and raped as a young adult, I felt lost for many years until the unusual request of a friend set me on a path of true healing and transformation.
I studied the Art & Science of Coaching at Erickson Coaching International, Reiki Level One- Master at Beaumont Hospital, and Traumatic Incident Reduction at TIRA.
I wish I could tell you how incredible it feels to have healed from trauma. But there is no word that would come even close to describing the joy, happiness, freedom and peacefulness you will feel once you are free of your past.
Let me help you experience the same joy, freedom and happiness that I feel each and every day. Let me help you release your trauma and transform your life!
Learn more about me at www.riseaboveyourstory.com, join my Facebook group Release, Reconnect, Realign, or on LinkedIn, Instagram and clubhouse @sandracooze.
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E178 - Jan Robertson Author of May and Ted - conditional and unconditional love
J. D. Robertson is a retired corporate writer. She lives in Edmonton, Alberta, with her puggle, Charlee, and her husband, Bill. May and Ted is her first novel.
May isn’t your average child. Neither is Ted. May is controlling and manipulative. Ted is brilliant. May is obsessed with Ted.
May’s love for Ted isn’t just some childhood crush. She knows that. Ted knows that, too. At least he should. They’re meant to be together, right? That’s why May has spent her whole life waiting for him, watching him. Ted just needs to understand.
Then, everything will be perfect.
May and Ted is about passion, it’s about conditional and unconditional love, and it’s about what a person will do to make things right.
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E177 - Amanda Furgiuele - Co-Author of The Pursuit of Badasserie - How to Create Badass Business Abundance
Our Guest
I have been an entrepreneur since before I knew that was a thing. I was the kid with the side-by-side lemonade stand and carwash. I remember calculating ways to make more money at the stand by selling candy and friendship bracelets—always about being a hustler, always striving to maximize time and increase profits, even before I could do math. But it was more than a hustle for me. Business is in my bones. I love working and, more importantly, I love working on work and helping others meet their potential.
I have never been one to shy away from work, turn down a challenge, or live a life ordinarily. I started my first “official” business while I was still in college and continued on a rampage of founding, running, buying, and selling multiple businesses over the next couple of decades.
The Book: The Pursuit of Badasserie: How to Create Badass Business Abundance
This book is for entrepreneurs: aspiring and new business owners, solopreneurs, freelancers, and long-time entrepreneurs. Whether you are just starting out, have been struggling (or succeeding) for years, or are running a day-to-day doldrum, every entrepreneur has the same challenges, fears, and unrealistic expectations. With so many conflicting strategies, confusing ideals, and competing businesses, how will you stand out and get ahead? Sometimes the answers lie within! The Pursuit of Badasserie looks at how and why you make the decisions that truly count in creating badass business abundance!
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E176 - Melahni Ake - Overcome everyday obstacles and become a leader of your life
Melahni Ake was born a servant leader who has developed her beliefs through her passion for learning from her leadership mentors, including Dr. John Maxwell, Walt Disney, Simon Sinek, her grandparents, and her tenacious mom. Spending over 25 years in medical device sales, sales training, and sales leadership, she was fortunate to learn and work alongside innovators and visionaries in orthopedic and gastroenterology medicine. Her passion for improving outcomes fuels her to add value to everything she is involved in. She is an inspirational speaker, 5 X Best Selling author, podcast host, and a UINDY Alumni and holds Bachelors's and Associates' degrees in Business Administration, Organizational Leadership, and Psychology. Her company Everyday Leaders, was inspired during her certification into the John Maxwell Leadership Team as a speaker, coach, and trainer in 2016. She quickly developed her vision for creating the Everyday Leaders 50in50 podcast to celebrate everyday leaders making a significant impact worldwide. Through this process, she has interviewed hundreds of thought leaders teaching leadership principles to help others overcome everyday obstacles. Some of these interviews include VP of Disney Lee Cockerell, Traci Morrow, known for P90X, Beachbody, and John Maxwell's live event host.
She is the Founder of Everyday Leaders Professional Coaching and Consulting, Host of Everyday Leaders Podcast,
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E175 - Kate Connolly - Your Intuition is Your Ticket to Freedom
Hi, my name is Kate Connolly and I help you awaken your intuition so you can make better decisions in your life.
Your spiritual journey can be a lonely and difficult one. I know, I’ve been there. Essentially the concept of spirituality is to learn who you really are and heal the parts of yourself that are in duality, or in other words unhealed.
You may be in a situation where you feel that moving forward in your life is all about finding the right process, the right therapist or the right routine. You may be spending a lot of time writing to do lists, having goals in your head and “working hard” to get there, only to just feel like your tread milling and not moving forward.
You might have the best intentions with your life but you may find you being directed by things outside of you (eg. friends, work, the news) without realizing just how powerful you are to create your own reality. You may find yourself feeling overworked and under appreciated, unsure about what you really want and even if you do know what you want, you have no idea how to get there.
My goal is to teach you how to trust yourself, and create the life of your dreams by getting out of your own way. When you can learn this and make life decisions based on your inner knowing, rather than what someone or something else has told you to have then all things are possible. I would love to work with you and show you how to do this for yourself.
www.kateconnolly.com.au
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E174 - Christopher A C Wiley - From Serving as a Helicopter Pilot to Author, A Lobster and a Penguin
AC loves learning new things, understanding things better, and sharing stories. On paper, he is a [soon to be retired] 22+ year Lieutenant Colonel in the U.S. Army, former scout helicopter pilot, Ph.D., martial artist, ordained minister, amateur magician, and Lifer in a traditional motorcycle club.
But, in reality, he’s just a scared lobster that found shelter along the path and has kept going. He says that he’s a product of many other travelers and their journeys. AC was born and raised in a small rural Pennsylvania community. He was the youngest of two, but eventually the youngest of four (at any given time) because his parents were superheroes. The state system called them foster parents, but they were nothing short of heroes to many young men and women.
AC recently published his first book, The Lobster’s Guide to Herding Penguins: A Practical Guide to Gaining Perspective and Living the Stories Worth Telling. He will soon be a featured author in the second edition of Voices For Leadership, compiled by Brian Brogen.
Learn more:
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www.linkedin.com/in/christopher-ac-wiley/
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E173 - Zen Ase - Accelerate mindset changes and replace limitations with possibilities
About the Author
The artistic entrepreneur known as Marlena “Zen Ase” Johns has lived an adventurous life, raising twin sons, and teaching high school for twenty-six years in the inner city. She was Teacher of the Year for AHS in 2011-2012 and 2017-2018, a Claes Nobel Educator of Distinction and a University of Chicago Distinguished Educator. One of her plays was performed at a local community center. She won a prose contest sponsored by the University of Houston. She’s performed poetry more times than she can count at over 50 venues, hosted, and organized over 50 live music, comedy and poetry shows, Laughz and Lyrics, to both handfuls of adoring fans and wall to wall, standing room only crowds. She’s the Houston organizer for 100,000 Poets for Change, and she’s been honored with a Congressional Award for activism. Her poetry and prose can be found in over a dozen anthologies and magazines.
ABOUT THIS PODCAST
Zennurgy is the inspirational tool box providing resources for building a better life. Motivational, practical fuel for the spirit, mind and body to help listeners deal with real life issues. This podcast is based on the idea that small changes over time equal big results. We all have the URGE for more peace (ZEN) and fulfillment in life. Tune in for motivating, uplifting, sometimes hard hitting, comedic, melodic but always real and relatable conversations and interviews with guests from all walks of life.
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E172 - Krystal Casey - A Story of Trauma, The Loss of a Partner and Starting Over As A Single Parent
In her new book, Shattering the Stigma of Single Motherhood, Krystal teams up with 12 other women to share their stories of strength, encouragement, and inspiration for the estimated 20 million single moms throughout the U.S.
Krystal was blindsided when her husband of 11 years was charged with sexual abuse against a minor. Within weeks of her discovery, he overdosed and was gone.
She was shattered and almost gave up; but with 5 children watching, she knew she couldn’t. Instead, she returned to her yoga practice, her tribe, and her passion, and let them carry her through.
Now, as an author, instructor and empowerment coach, Krystal shares her story on a mission to encourage women to honor and heal their past trauma, step into their sexual strength today, and feel confident about the future.
Shattering the Stigma of Single Motherhood is written for single moms looking for inspiration, motivation, and practical steps on how to create a life she can be proud of for herself and her children. Readers will come away from the book feeling like they can and overcome any obstacle put before them as a single mom.
All chapters were authentically written and represent each author’s intimate and relatable perspective on Shattering the Stigma of Single Motherhood and the challenges we face as single moms in all stages of life.
If you are struggling with guilt, shame, trauma, anxiety, depression, fear, forgiveness, or anger, then this book is for you! Inside are 12 strategies to help you to embrace and own your life as a single mom.
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E171 - Dr. Davis McAlister - From Homeless, To Serving in the US Army, to A Doctorate and Author
All About Dr. McAlister
Dr. McAlister coaches powerlifting at both the high school and national level and is active in his local community by volunteering and supporting high schools in North Texas. He is also the Sports Chiropractor and Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach for a Sports & Performance clinic in Frisco, TX.
He served in the US Army for 8 years prior to earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University. He was awarded a Master of Educational Leadership from Sul Ross State University, and a Bachelor of Anatomy, Doctor of Chiropractic, and Master of Strength & Performance from Parker University.
Dr. Davis McAlister has 15 years combined teaching and coaching experience at high schools in the State of Texas and holds a Principal Administration Certification.
His Expertise
Dr. Davis McAlister has traveled the journey from a troubled teen and a period of homelessness to a military career, college education, and business owner. He is ready to share his lessons on his failures and successes along that journey so that others may benefit and grow!
He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a parent, coach, teacher, author and clinician to help you through the most trying times of your life or to simply get ahead in the areas of personal growth, success principles, family, sports, or active lifestyle!
Dr. McAlister trains professionals in sports performance, sports injury, and rehabilitation as well as cares for high school, college, and professional athletes of all sports.
Dr. McAlister has the unique ability to relate what he knows into bits of knowledge that are easily relatable and applicable to your everyday life!
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E170 - Ben Cardall - A Modern Day Sherlock Holmes, Deductionist, Consultant, Coach and Author
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E169 - Faith Cuore Solomon - My Name is Kitten - A Story about My Dad
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E168 - Richard Rieman - Founder and CEO of Imagination Storybooks - Making Storybooks Accessible to All Children
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E167 - Jeff Berney - Thriller Author, A Killer Secret and The Fall of Faith
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E166 - Bruce McIntyre - Selling Your Business and Battling Cancer, A Story that Inspires
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 165 - Ariel Tsai - Author of Narcissus - Falling in love with yourself can be difficult
About the Author
An avid reader and literary critic, Ariel Tsai always knew she needed to write a book. She obtained a bachelor’s degree in English literature and criticism and Chinese language and literature, studying both in the United States and China. Her stylistic writing comes from a persistent itch to tell stories and understand the world around her. With sarcasm, wit, and keen observations (as an accomplished poet is wont to do), Tsai pours her ambition and heart into her writing. She harbors an undying love for symbolism, translation theory, and Honey Nut Cheerios, alongside a great deal of shame about her Anglophilic preferences in literature. John Milton and Philip Pullman are likely to blame.
Falling in love with yourself can be difficult, with the exception being Narcissus, a figure in Greek mythology known to have fallen for his reflection. Contemptuous towards everyone but himself, the Greek youth realized he was his own true love. Whether he withered away in his longing or drowned in the pool of his reflection, Narcissus became the flower with delicate white and gold petals, staring at itself in the still waters. Like its namesake, Narcissus by Ariel Tsai reflects the human condition in all its most beautiful, mundane, and unpleasant forms.
Narcissuscaptures human growth, for better or for worse, to reflect on what it means to love oneself— foolishly and wholeheartedly.
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
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E164 - Wayne Benenson, Ph.D. and Barb Hughson, Ph.D. - Co-Authors of Claim Your Light - Gaining Insight for a Fulfilling Life
Dr. WayneDr. Wayne is a glass half full kind of teacher. A curiosity for learning and teaching has taken him to many classrooms: from urban to suburban to rural; and from elementary, middle, high school and university; and from large group to small group to tutorials and online. What’s kept him enthusiastic in over five decades as a teacher and coach, parent and grandparent, has been the search for the “teachable moment.” Often such an opportunity to grow comes gift wrapped as a problem to be solved. He’s found ways, time and time again, to reframe any unwelcome burdens as a mystery to be solved.
Dr. BarbDr. Barb has been involved in education and learning for over 22 years. She has been an entrepreneur offering courses in parenting, a mediator for families, and a therapist for children and adolescents. Dr. Barb coaches leaders of all levels to be better versions of themselves (see her site at www.DrBarbHughson.com). She created a model for coaching centered around self-awareness, the true foundation of leadership. Her bright spirit and friendly nature allow her to build strong and caring relationships with everyone she meets. She has an MA and an MSEd in Counseling and Education and an EdD in Organizational Leadership.
Book: Claim Your Light - Gaining Insight for a Fulfilling LifeAmazon CanadaAmazon US
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
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Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E174 - Christopher A C Wiley - From Serving as a Helicopter Pilot to Author, A Lobster and a Penguin
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E163 - Tiffany Obeng - Educational and Inspiring Children's Picture Books Featuring Black Children and Families
Tiffany Obeng is a children’s book writer and owner of Sugar Cookie Books book publishing imprint. As a female of color raising children of color, she writes books that feature African American main characters. Tiffany has career books for kids named after and inspired by her son, that teaches children about various careers and also, more importantly, that they can aspire to be anything they want to be!
Educational and Inspiring Children's Books your Kids will Enjoy!
https://www.sugarcookiebooks.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 172 - Krystal Casey - A Story of Trauma, The Loss of a Partner and Starting Over As A Single Parent
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E162 - Jeeva and Sulojana Sam - Pre-Arranged Marriage, When Family Selects Your Spouse and Now Helping Couples
Pastor Jeeva Sam and Sulojana specialize in mentoring those who are hungry for wholistic transformation and supernatural success in their personal lives, relationships, businesses and other spheres of influence.
Pastor Jeeva brings 35+ years of pastoral experience to this enterprise.
With 36+ years of marriage expertise, he and Sulojana offer Marriage Mentorship that brings about Breakthrough to couples on the brink of Breakdown.
The Sams serve on the Leadership Team of the Ontario Prophetic Council. They provide godly practical wisdom and Spirit-led counsel to high achievers in business, sales, arts & entertainment, media, politics, and other mountains of influence through the Mentorship Plus Mastermind.
They are blessed with three great children--daughter Priya (recently news anchor on a national Canadian show) and sons Sathiya (anointed worship leader, recording artist and Spirit-Led Freedom specialist) and Jaya (physiotherapist and worship leader).
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 171 - Dr. Davis McAlister - From Serving in the US Army to A Doctorate
All About Dr. McAlister
Dr. McAlister coaches powerlifting at both the high school and national level and is active in his local community by volunteering and supporting high schools in North Texas. He is also the Sports Chiropractor and Certified Strength and Conditioning Coach for a Sports & Performance clinic in Frisco, TX.
He served in the US Army for 8 years prior to earning a Bachelor of Science degree from Mississippi State University. He was awarded a Master of Educational Leadership from Sul Ross State University, and a Bachelor of Anatomy, Doctor of Chiropractic, and Master of Strength & Performance from Parker University.
Dr. Davis McAlister has 15 years combined teaching and coaching experience at high schools in the State of Texas and holds a Principal Administration Certification.
His Expertise
Dr. Davis McAlister has traveled the journey from a troubled teen and a period of homelessness to a military career, college education, and business owner. He is ready to share his lessons on his failures and successes along that journey so that others may benefit and grow!
He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience as a parent, coach, teacher, author and clinician to help you through the most trying times of your life or to simply get ahead in the areas of personal growth, success principles, family, sports, or active lifestyle!
https://drdavismcalister.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 170 - Ben Cardall - A Modern Day Sherlock Holmes, Deductionist, Consultant, Coach and Author
Author
Ben is a man who has made it his business to know what other people don’t, and often couldn’t know!!
Ben has been studying deduction and all of the facets of skill that it entails for over 15 years now, it all stemmed from his obsession with Sherlock Holmes, the detective with infinite reasoning and logic with an aptitude for picking out the smallest detail of a person within seconds of meeting them.
Ben was curious as to whether this super human ability was achievable and sort to find out. This was when he first started to study and put into practice everything he now knows about mentalism.
The book: The Monographs - A comprehensive manual on all you need to know to become an expert Deductionist
Contained within you will learn how to think and approach problem solving like the famed detective, spot liars in person and through their handwriting, deduce clues, personality traits, and the personal details of people through their phones, watches and clothes.
After you read this book not only will you see the world but you will truly observe what goes on inside it as well. Your name will still be your own, but you can make it your business to know what other people do not know.
https://www.bencardall.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E161 - Janelle Jones - Stand up, Speak up, Show up, Grow Your Team, Side Hustles
About the Author
Janelle Jones is known as the “Queen of Side Hustles”. She has inspired many people to improve their life and earn extra income while they are also working full time. She shows them that by doing what they love they can create a “side hustle” and earn extra income.
She believes that this is the best way to eliminate debt, pay for vacations, and enroll their children in the best private schools. She also considers doing a side hustle as an alternative to the traditional 9 to 5 lifestyle which most people do daily.
That is why she offers a book which she calls a “From Passion to Profit” that serves as a guide to making profits based on what you are passionate about.
As she always likes to say “Take a step out on faith and you can accomplish the unthinkable! The only thing stopping you from reaching your goals is for you to take that JUMP!”, she emphasizes that anything is possible if you just take a chance. She has proven it herself by doing different side hustles that really worked and even made her decide to leave the corporate world and become a highly successful freelance professional that she is today!
Full Life Framework: The Essential Guide
https://janelleajones.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E160 - Chris Natzke - Achieve Breakthrough Results by Creating a CHAMPION'S MINDSET
Chris is not only a champion himself but has been training leaders and their teams to find their own Inner Champions for over four decades. As an 8th Degree Black Belt/Master Instructor and former national Taekwondo champion, Chris ranks in the top 1% of all martial artists in the world.
Get Ready to Learn, Laugh and Be Inspired
As a keynote speaker, seminar leader, life-leadership coach and author, Chris’s passion is sharing his unique brand of Black Belt Leadership so others may discover the most empowered version of themselves – leading to clarity of purpose, increased confidence and the courage to take inspired action to make their dreams come true.
Collegiately, he was a 4-year letterman in football at Northwestern University. In 2013, he graduated with a master’s degree in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica and published his first book, Black Belt Leadership: 7 Keys to Creating Life of Purpose by Discovering Your Inner Champion. In 2021, he released his second book, Amazon #1 Best-Seller, BREAKING THROUGH: 3 Winning Strategies to Create Breakthrough Results in Your Life, Business and Relationships.
Chris resides in the Denver, Colorado area with his two grown sons and a multitude of friends.
https://www.chrisnatzke.comhttps://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 169 - Faith Cuore Solomon - My Name is Kitten - A Story about My Dad
I AM KITTEN: DAD'S GIRL AND DANG PROUD OF IT by Victoria and Faith Cuore
Hi, I am Faith, a special needs kid who has overcome it all!! At this point, I have had over three dozen operations, survived them, and much more. My mom is Victoria Cuore, author, CEO, podcast host, and advocate for survivors of domestic violence and special needs families. You can find us both on our podcasts, A Contagious Smile, and I am one of the hosts of, A Contagious Smile's Teen Talk.
I KNOW THAT WHEN YOU OPEN MY FIRST BOOK EVER PUBLISHED, I AM KITTEN, YOU WILL SEE ANOTHER COVER/TITLE PAGE. I WANTED BOTH, AND I AM UNIQUE, NOT DIFFERENT, SO WE PUT BOTH IN. THIS WAS MY FIRST BOOK, AND MY MOM LET ME DO IT MY WAY SO PLEASE DON'T BE MEAN AND SEE THE STORY FOR WHAT IT IS..... LOVE........
I am Kitten; I have waited my whole life for the one missing piece of my life, my dad. My mom knew from day one who would be the only person she would ever allow any one else to hold that title except one specific guy, and boy, was she right.
https://acontagioussmile.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 168 - Richard Rieman, Founder and CEO of Imagination Storybooks - Making Storybooks Accessible to All Children
Richard Rieman
Richard Rieman, “The Audiobook Wizard,” is an acclaimed authority on audio and video self-publishing. He has narrated and produced hundreds of Indie-published audiobooks. He is the author of the Global eBook Awards Gold Medal Winner in Writing/Publishing, “The Author’s Guide to Audiobook Creation.”
Richard is a Gold Medal National Ben Franklin Independent Book Publishers Assn. (IBPA) Award Winner for Audiobook Nonfiction, an Audible Approved Audiobook Producer, and a 5-time winner of the EVVY Award for audiobook narration and production.
Richard is a former guide and racing instructor for visually impaired skiers, a volunteer narrator for Learning Ally; and a member of the Audiobook Narrators of America, the Audio Description Network Alliance, and the Audio Description Project.
https://imaginationstorybooks.org/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E159 - Devorah Kur - Not Why Me But What Now, Finding Meaning in Our Challenges
It all started in 1996 when my father was diagnosed with colon cancer. At the time I was running my own corporate interior design company, and loving the creativity.
After his diagnosis, I became obsessed with the role of patients in their health, healing and illnesses. A new world opened up for me as I began exploring healing and what wellness meant. Was healing only up to doctors, or did we, as patients, have a role to play?
Many fascinating books and teachers came into my life, who inspired me further, like Dr Bernie Siegel, who explores the role of the patient as an active participant in his own healing.
Encouraging patients to take ownership of their healing, he says, “We are the soil in which the disease roots itself.” Deb Shapiro, Deepak Chopra, Caroline Myss and many more inspired me as I became more passionate about our ability to heal and to be healed.
Amazon link to my book, 'Man's Search for Healing': https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BJQ6WNG5
Website - www.dkwellness.co.il
Email - devorah@dkwellness.co.il
Facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/dkwellbeing/
YouTube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5YDsijkbETm1T70Lc2B2Ag
LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/devorah-kur-b692a725/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E158 - Nellah Mx - Author of Two Books - Hear Her Struggle with Stuttering and Her Exit From The Adult Entertainment Industry
Please note - this episode has Adult Themes - nothing within this episode is explicit, but the message of hope is powerful and is meant to inspire others afraid to share their voice and their story in order to help others!
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Uncovering the Brave Within: Vulnerable Stories from Female Impact LeadersA podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 167 - Jeff Berney - Thriller Author, A Killer Secret and The Fall of Faith
Jeff has been living in his head since 1974, so it wasn’t much of a jump for him to live in his characters’ heads. And after more than 20 years as an advertising writer, he decided he’d sleep better writing stories that keep people up at night.
He lives with (and for) his amazing wife, four of his seven rambunctious children, two doodles, and three cats, as well as the occasional fish or rabbit.
His debut novel, “A Killer Secret” was published In December 2019 followed by “The Fall of Faith” in October 2022.
https://jeffberney.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E157 - Marjie Hadad Author of The Power of PR Parenting - Public Relations Practices for ParentsThe Power of PR Parenting offers a fresh approach to parenthood based on the experience and perspectives of Marjie Hadad, a global public relations expert who used her professional skills to raise her now three grown children.
A master storyteller, Marjie shares her personal and professional journeys as well as her successes and mistakes, to illustrate how to mirror her wins and avoid the same hiccups.
Step-by-step, with humor and straight talk, Marjie shows you how to use strategic public relations techniques to help your child:
- Part with their pacifier willingly
- Develop superior writing, language and presentation skills
- Build self-confidence, self-love, resilience, respect & tolerance
- Deal with bullies and sexual predators – online and on the street
- Handle crises in today’s post pandemic world – small and large
- Make the effort and enjoy the journey
https://prfor.life/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E156 - Keith Hayden - US Air Force veteran, teacher, author, podcaster and avid language learnerIn the world of business, “different” is sometimes prefable to “better.” My guest today, Keith Hayden, is a prime example of this. He is an author and is doing incredibly unique things online to promote his fiction book.
Keith has come up with a fantastic way to break his 500-page novel down into bite-sized chunks for social media. He has created an audio drama version of Cereus & Limnic and is combining that with live streams where he goes deep on the book writing process. But how should he go about getting more eyeballs on his content?
The inspiration for a lot of what Keith is doing is the sense of belonging he felt when he was in the military. He wants to recreate that for his audience, which is very smart. I had a blast talking to him, and this is an inspiring chat for all of us looking to build loyal, targeted audiences. Enjoy!
https://keithhayden.net/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Karen D Ortega
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope. Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Matthew Dickson
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Babien Avila
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Johanna Baker
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Kathleen Dutton
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope. Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Char Murphy
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Maria Lehtman
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Ipek Williamson
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Destiny Bogan
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Todd George-Stone
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Dr. Jo Anne White
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Mike Sutton
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
Babien Avila
Johanna Baker
Jennifer Bassett
Destiny Bogan
Brad Burchnell
Minnku Buttar
Matthew Dickson
Kathleen Dutton
Curtis Gregor
Maria Lehtman
Susan LePlae Miller
Karen Ortega
Jean L. Serio
Todd George Stone
M.L. Sutton
Dr. Jo Anne White
Ipek Williamson
Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Book Link
Amazon US Book Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Mission Hope - Thriving Through Seasons of the Soul - Co-Author Susan LePlae Miller
This collection of personal and professional stories is written from the heart, by everyday people just like you. They will make you laugh and make you cry. Above all, it will give you more confidence and strength to confront your own adversities in life, and to know, you're not alone. The authors of Mission Hope have been where you are right now. They want you to know, if they can go through it and come out better, more empowered and on the other side of what feels like a total disaster, you can do it too. A new season of hope is coming soon.
Please meet the 18 very talented and inspirational authors of Mission Hope:
- Babien Avila
- Johanna Baker
- Jennifer Bassett
- Destiny Bogan
- Brad Burchnell
- Minnku Buttar
- Matthew Dickson
- Kathleen Dutton
- Curtis Gregor
- Maria Lehtman
- Susan LePlae Miller
- Karen Ortega
- Jean L. Serio
- Todd George Stone
- M.L. Sutton
- Dr. Jo Anne White
- Ipek Williamson
- Tracey S. Yang
Introduction by Char Murphy
Amazon Canada Link
Amazon US Linkhttps://believeinspire.us/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E155 - Sandra Hunter - Rewriting Her Relationship With Her Mother and Building Community With Readers
Sandra has several books available - her most recent is a fictionalized memoir based on the imagined story of my mother's life, as she moved from Sri Lanka, to India and from there to London in 1948
https://www.facebook.com/sandrajhunterwriter/
https://livingthenextchapter.com/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 154 - B Sedgwick - Poetry, Coffee Shops and Spirit Moxie
About the Author
B Sedgwick had her first poem published at age 7 and has been playing with words ever since. As part of that journey she studied creative writing in Alaska, taught poetry in North Dakota, and been published in such diverse places as "The WItness," "Lilliput Review," and "Five-two Poetry." In 2013 she founded Spirit Moxie (www.spiritmoxie.com) where she writes conversation posts on how we can make the world a better place. Her recent book (which you can find listed with Sally B. Sedgwick as the author) "Moxie Moves: 10 easy ways to make a powerful difference" supports this vision. But poetry is her first love and her default writing genre at random coffee shops and bars
https://linktr.ee/spiritmoxiehttps://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E153 - Tracy Lea Carnes - Behind the Scenes of Sundance Film Festival with her new book The Darlings of Sundance
Our Guest: Tracy
A fun fact about me was that she was a finalist in the Chris Moore Challenge during the first season of HBO’s Project Greenlight with a 60 second comedy spoof that I wrote and produced. My political satire has also appeared nationally in The Huffington Post. My one-act play, UNDERSTANDING POLLY, won a 24-hour playwriting contest a few years ago. As for screenwriting, I studied under Lew Hunter at his colony. Spielberg calls Lew “the best screenwriting teacher going.”
The Book: When struggling midlist author, Austen Landry, receives the chance of a lifetime to interview mega-star Radley Seager at the Sundance Film Festival, she jumps at the opportunity only to get caught up in the glamour, drama, danger, and secrets that Seager's entourage brings into Austen's orbit. This chance of a lifetime will change Austen's life forever.
Austen's cinematographer best friend, a contemplative director, a rising starlet, an elusive stalker, a publisher and studio head power couple, and Austen's vanilla boyfriend from back home round out the cast of characters. Through the eyes of Austen we glimpse a unique and unbridled view into the glamorous inner workings of the Sundance Film Festival - the multi-million-dollar deals, the exclusive star-studded parties, the gifting suites, the hot-tubs, and, of course, the swag.
Does Austen return home to New Orleans with something much more valuable than anything a gifting suite full of swag could ever give her? A week can change everything!
https://tracyleacarnes.blogspot.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Bonus - Living The Next Chapter - Support The Show Option
Hi everyone! Our hosting site, Buzzsprout, has opened the doors to help us create bonus content for you, our friends and family!
We do not have commercials like other podcasts - why? because commercials interrupt our show, they can be annoying as a listener - truly!
Our podcast will always be free to you and free of commercials. Always.
The monthly costs associated with running our podcast costs us roughly $40 - $50 each month (includes our hosting site, software to make the show, website address and host etc.)
We are trying this new bonus content feature and we would love your feedback.
We will not hide any interview or content behind a pay wall - nope!
We are going to offer a recap and updates on past interviews, changes, additional insight, bloopers and a more "behind the mic" experience for those wishing to support the show.
We will give this a try, and again, we would love to hear from you. What would you like to see as an "extra" - we are kicking the tires on this new feature and will determine down the road how this will look for our audience!
Cheers
Dave
https://livingthenextchapter.com/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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**E152 - Keith Blakemore-Noble, Author of AntiManipulation - Avoid the Pit of Despair in Sales
About our guest:**Multi-time award-winning international speaker. Multi-time best-selling author. World’s #1 Fear Strategist. Creator of Mindset Mastery.
I am all of these, but I am also someone who used to be utterly terrified of speaking with strangers, and who allowed this fear to hold his life back for decades.
Until one panic attack too many, which forced me to realise I needed to Do Something.
The Book: WHEN YOU BUY SOMETHING, ARE YOU BUYING BECAUSE YOU WANT TO, OR BECAUSE THEY WANT YOU TO?
AND COULD YOU EVEN SPOT THE DIFFERENCE?
There are countless unscrupulous individuals and businesses out there, each with a very strong vested interest in you buying their stuff – whether that’s products, courses, services, or even ideas, beliefs, and theories.
So strong is their need for you to buy from them, that they will stop at nothing in their attempts to manipulate you into buying.
Imagine if you could find out about their approaches, so that you could protect yourself?
That’s the premise behind the new book AntiManipulation, which is coming soon from the international best-selling author of The Masks We Wear and the Winning In Life And Work series.
It’s time to put the balance of power back into your hands!
https://keithblakemorenoble.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 151 - Reed Maltbie - Your Words Matter, Coach Reed is Your Leadership Development and Marketing Expert
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E150 - Stacey Luces - Helping Executive Women Reduce Stress, Find Joy, and Build Their Dream Life - The Sandwich Generation
I believe in the intrinsic worth of people and having grown up in a developing country (Trinidad and Tobago), and traveled extensively across the world, I know firsthand that empowering women can change lives and lift communities. I value integrity, contribution, and growth, and as a Certified Executive Coach, I help executive women design an inspired life, aligned mindset, improve their leadership skills, and feel empowered to improve their lives.
Co-Author of “We Rise in Power: Amplifying Women of Color and Her Voices for Change” (publication August 2022).
https://evolutionexecutivecoaching.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E149 - Dr. Heather Browne - Faith-based Psychotherapist and Award-winning Poet and Writer
Hi! I'm Dr. HeatherI've been a psychotherapist and a mother for 25 years. I love both roles deeply. I am excellent at helping people change sticky thought processes and see the other side of challenging situations. They call me the "reframe queen". My specialties are couples communication and intimacy, grief and loss, spirituality and faith, and transforming lives into expressions of beauty and joy.
There is no stuck. We just see it that way. Changing our perspective changes our experience. I am incredibly grateful for my sharp mind, a fast wit, and a massive amount of energy and light. I am here to show you that you can lighten and enlighten your load. Or just dump it. I use metaphor, storytelling, imagery, and humor in my work. You will find me approachable, smart, deeply compassionate, with a goofy side.
I have been published in Inc. Magazine, Insider Magazine, Toronto Sun, Psychology Today, Focus on the Family's "Thriving Family", Light + Life, and hundreds of journals and reviews. I was selected out of 1000's to be the Relationship Expert on DayBreak OC for a television season and have been interviewed several times on ABC7 news. I am currently creating an on-line Communications course. I am an active YouTuber, supporting our community in relationship, communication, and self-love.
My greatest desire is to support you in drawing closer to your true self, your inner wisdom, and your purpose. Our lives are an amazing adventure and blessing, given freely to us to explore and to share love, our uniqueness, and our stories. Let me encourage and empower you in sharing yours.
https://www.drheatherbrowne.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E148 - Derek T Freeman - Author of Building Unstoppable Self-Confidence for Teens
Derek T Freeman is the author of a great book created for the student in your life!
Building Unstoppable Self-Confidence for Teens: The Fail-Safe Formula for Finding Yourself, Overcoming Limitations and Creating Your Best Life from the Inside Out
His work aims to inspire tweens, teens, parents, and families by providing motivational content and guiding them through the years that are often seen as the most challenging parts of both parenting and growing up.
As a young teenager, Derek struggled with self-esteem, bullying, and fitting in. As a father, he has attended countless groups and school functions and, along the way, has realized just how common his school experiences are. He is determined to make the turbulent waters of adolescence easier to navigate for other young people.
Derek is a musician by trade and toured the US for nine years after graduating high school, releasing six albums before the birth of his first child. He then moved into the restaurant business, managing a small team for over a decade. He has two daughters, aged 10 and 12, and a 13-year-old son.
Derek was born and raised in New York and currently lives in Connecticut with his wife, three children, and two cats.
Throne - The Fatiguehttps://facebook.com/DerekTFreemanAuthor
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E147 - Anza Goodbar - Turn Your Book Into An Event, Course or Workshop With Bankable Events
Anza Goodbar Coaching & Consulting and Bankable Events LLC offers the comprehensive capabilities and deep industry knowledge necessary to help you solve the most complex issues of your organization. Since opening our doors in 2008, we’re proud to say that each year we have a bigger list of returning and new clients.
As the market opens up new opportunities, we inject the freshest strategies into our tool kit. That's how our newest brand, Bankable Events, was birthed. We know that live events help business owners bolster their brands, build community and generate consistent revenue.
We work with coaches, consultants, and service-based businesses who are dedicated to building a strong foundation to scale and make a big impact in the world.
Are you ready to take your business to the next level?
We provide a wide array of coaching, consulting, event strategies, and event planning support to help you reach your goals more quickly.
Want to experience the expertise of Anza Goodbar Coaching & Consulting or Banakable Events LLC for yourself? Schedule a call with our team to learn how we can help you put revenue driving strategies to work in your business.
https://www.bankableevents.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 146 - Kerri McKinney - Co-Author of Depression Lied To Me - Thriving After Alcoholism
I used to be that girl.
The girl who was easily angered and bothered by even the littlest of things.
The girl who was jealous of everyone else and compared herself to every woman who walked by.
The girl who relied on every single person besides herself to make her feel validated and happy.
I thought it was everyone elses’ responsibility to make me feel loved and I immediately blamed others for any negative emotion that would start to take me over.
I had zero understanding or awareness as to how to control my big emotions and how to not let my feelings define who I was.
I lived with awful body-image issues for most of my life and tried every different diet pill I could get my hands on - I always avoided staring at myself in the mirror.
I suffered from extreme codependency and discovered alcohol at the young age of 12, which I quickly learned helped me to avoid feeling anything I didn’t want to feel (which was a lot).
I was ashamed about much from my past and tried hard to create the exact persona of who I thought others wanted me to be.
I was constantly depressed, filled with anxiety and always doing whatever anyone else thought I should do or what I thought others wanted me to do to get them to appreciate me and make me feel valued.
https://www.kerrimckinney.com/
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A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 145 - Matthew Keeley - English Teacher and Author of Contemporary, Young Adult, Science Fiction Genre
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 144 - Sandra E Hill - A Survivor Shares Her Story and Helps Writers Just Like You - Check Out Her Author Soup Recipe
Our Guest -
After almost 40 years in one career, Sandra Hill is following her dream of being a life, business and career coach in my own company – New Horizen Coaching & Professional Growth Advancement. Part of her vision is to expand the benefits of coaching via other formats so not only does she host a weekly radio show, but she is also a speaker and trainer.
She writes articles for Forbes (Coaches Council), Lead Up for Women (magazine) and issues a quarterly newsletter. As a best-selling author on a coaching collaboration book with her peers, Sandra wanted to start writing short books that reflected a part of her own life journey hoping to inspire others to rise above their storms and find the sunshine. Some of the books will eventually have associated videos and webinar training designed to help others lead their more purposeful life. (That’s a hint to connect and follow me so you won’t miss out!)
https://newhorizencoaching.com/
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A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E143 - Katrina McGhee - For Dummies Series - Taking A Career Sabbatical - When to Hit Pause on Your Career
Welcome Katrina!
Katrina is currently writing a "For Dummies Series Book" about taking a break and Sabbatical!
Katrina is the Career Break & Sabbatical Fairy Godmother here to make your dreams come true.
As a certified master coach with an MBA, I help 9-5ers create successful, mind-blowing career breaks and fight through the fear of breaking from their conventional career paths to create a life that brings fulfillment, joy, adventure or whatever they are craving.
My Story
As a young adult, I had it pretty good: the corporate job, a comfortable salary, generous company benefits. Or so it seemed.
I worked my way up the ladder across three large companies, earning praise and awards along the way.
But something was missing.
I had a comfortable life that looked "successful" on the outside, but inside I struggled with an inner knowing that I was trapped inside a life that wasn’t really “me.”
I felt restless and uninspired.
I knew a change was necessary but I wasn’t ready to make a big leap to figure out what I really wanted. Instead, I took the “safe” route of going to a top 20 business school. I thought if I did well, with my MBA and my newly-secured job at a fortune 500 company, I would start to feel fulfilled.
I would finally be living the life I had always wanted.
I worked hard and was good at my job, but I lacked the enthusiasm and strategy necessary to keep climbing the ladder. Plus I had this nagging feeling that things still didn’t feel right.
I knew I needed something different.
https://www.kmcgheecoaching.com/
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podcast produced by: https://truemediasolutions.ca/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E142 - Laura Cayouette - Actor, Writer, Producer, Blogger - Character Development and Author Tools
A professional actor for over 25 years; Django Unchained, Now You See Me, Kill Bill, Enemy of the State, True Detective, Friends & more.
Endorsements from actor/filmmakers Richard Dreyfuss, Kevin Costner, Lou Diamond Phillips, Reginald Hudlin, Adam Rifkin & more.
Private coach available through Zoom, Skype and FaceTime for actors/writers/filmmakers, UNO Adjunct teaching directors how to work with actors. Guest teacher. Speaker.
**LEARN HOW LAURA WENT FROM WRITING 1 BOOK IN 20 YEARS TO 5 BOOKS IN 4 YEARS!
Go from an idea to a completed book – no matter your writing skill level.**
Avoid writer's block. Feel stimulated and creative – while moving at a pace you never thought possible.
Let Laura help you tell your stories in less time and with less stress.
https://lauracayouette.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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BONUS - Audible Pick - Storyworthy - Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E141 - Noelle Peterson - Author of The Dream Life Planner and Coach for A New Course and Community for Women
Noelle is a powerhouse of strength and enthusiasm. She has made it her life's mission to help women realize their individual purpose and discover the power they hold within themselves. She is passionate about inspiring women to take charge of their lives and embrace their unique gifts.
From leading workshops to teaching courses, Noelle has helped countless women unlock true prosperity through uncovering what they were truly meant to do with their lives. Noelle will be speaking to your women's group about how to draw upon inner strength and uncover purpose in order to empower one another for greater success.
The Book: Dream Life Planner: Move From Tired and Overwhelmed to Free and Empowered
https://www.addvalue2life.com/womenhttps://livingthenextchapter.com/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E140 - David Rocklin - Author and Creator of A Unique Writer's Retreat Designed Around Community and Inspiration
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
David Rocklin is the author of The Luminist and the founder/curator of Roar Shack, a monthly reading series in Los Angeles. He was born and raised in Chicago and now lives in LA with his wife, daughters and a 150 lb Great Dane who seriously needs to stay on his own bed. He’s currently at work on his next novel, The Electric Love Song of Fleischl Berger.
David hosts a Writer's Retreat in person and virtually
http://davidrocklinauthor.com/
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E139 - Jyoti Dhanota Addresses Taboo Topics in South Asian Communities
Joyti Dhanota, self published author from California. She has set a book publishing goal and is crushing it!! Joyti writes fiction books on taboo subjects that need conversation.
In her culture, many subjects of her books are not openly discussed and her hope is to shed light and understanding. Her sound advice?... Don't take any BS from someone you would not take advice from.
You can connect with Joyti @ : https://www.instagram.com/geetisbooked/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E138 - Stuart Blyth - CEO of From Pitch to Boardroom Limited, unlocking business potential by investing in your staff
Stuart Blyth is the founder and CEO of From Pitch to Boardroom Limited, a training and events company using the principles of team excellence and football management to improve business performance. He is the author of From Football Field to Boardroom and the management training book From Pitch to Boardroom, which he created with input from Christian Damiano, the renowned French football coach who helped France to World Cup glory in 1998.
Using a blend of interactive workshops, tactical board games and in-depth case studies, Stuart helps businesses in a variety of ways. As a renowned business consultant and trainer, he equips managers with the skills and confidence to tackle poor performance, educates businesses to harness and develop talent and facilitates leaders to create tailored solutions to a range of business problems.
Stuart’s inspiration for From Football Field to Boardroom stems from his belief that football management techniques and philosophies hold the key to unlocking business potential. Understanding how top football coaches operate enables leaders to grasp how to achieve team excellence in the commercial marketplace.
https://onlydo.online/
https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E137 - Cristal Cook - Former FBI Agent Turned Author Launching the Butterfly Effect
My vision is to do my part to raise the vibration of the planet, one person at a time, to ultimately launch a butterfly effect: “A butterfly can flutter its wings over a flower in China and cause a hurricane in the Caribbean”. The flutter of a butterfly’s wings is not forceful or commanding, yet that gentle movement can be inspiring, with the power of exponential effects. My own “gentle flutter” includes providing mental health therapy, speaking engagements, workshops, and my Crystalline Vibes™* children’s book series, using playful storytelling through the eyes of beloved animal characters to teach children how to be happier and healthier.
I grew up in Mancos, Colorado, population 1,000. Growing up, I spent my childhood rescuing animals, working in my parents’ hardware store--through good, old-fashioned parent manipulation--and even running my own detective agency, graciously sanctioned by the Town Marshall.
My journey to grown-up-hood took a meandering path. Early on, my parents understood that I would need a lot of encouragement and persuasion to pursue a safe, stable, and secure career. More of that good, old-fashioned parental encouragement led me to earn a BA in Accounting and I became a CPA. Yearning for more adventure and excitement, I returned to my childhood law-enforcement roots and became a Special Agent for the FBI, and a new path was forged.
https://www.cristalcook.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E136 - Sunita Johal - Canva Expert, Author of Awaken the Aura and Book Coaching
About the Author
Sunita enjoys her field of work as a ‘Turn YOUR Life Around’ Master Coach, a Master Hypnotherapist, Complementary/holistic/alternative/beauty therapist, and Group fitness instructor.
Over the years, she has helped many of her clients and doctors’ patients overcome trials and tribulations in their life by using unconventional methods which are suitable and tailored for her client and they do actually work.
Sunita has an array of qualifications and her background stems from Art and Design/Fashion textiles, but also an abundant amount of knowledge in the world of the mystic arts, psychology, alchemy, energy, colours, sorcery, the spiritual realm and so forth. Although not keen on math in her youth, she loves numerology and sacred geometry.
The Book
A warm welcome to ‘Awaken the Aura’, an alchemic book of creativity, science, and magic! It’s time to get involved in some practical work which plays a part of your new spiritual journey! Awaiting you is a lovely blend of themes such as Energy, Numerology, Crystals, Astrology, the Law of Attraction, Archangels, Moon cycles, Meditation, S.A.D. Other Mystic/Alternative Arts, and so much more. Awaken the Aura’s beautifully flavoursome pages would love to light up your life, intrigue you and enhance your mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual rooms. Perhaps you’re on a spiritual journey and sometimes it can be a little stressful and daunting in finding your own way, so why not take a companion with you? This way you won't feel alone, but instead, let the words guide you. You can create your own 'cheat sheet' that can lead you to your own chosen destiny - 'AWAKEN THE AURA' is waiting for you!
https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E135 - Darcy Murphy - Kingdom of Swords ad Seelie - The promised book and legacy that lives on
Kingdom of Swords And Seelie: An Urban Fantasy Romance
https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E134 - Natasha Sharma - Body Speak, your body is always speaking to you
BodySpeak means that your body is always speaking to you, all you have to do is listen.
The physical injuries, illnesses, and diseases you go through are the subconscious mind’s way of communicating with you – telling you that things are out of balance and something needs your attention.
Good health and happiness are only achievable when there is balance and synergy within our inner trinity – Mind, Body and Spirit.
https://www.mind-bodyspeak.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E133 - Elle Hart - Becoming Elle, Bullet Style Journals and Creating a Book on Canva
Elle Hart is passionate about providing support to enable others to overcome their feelings of powerlessness.
I’ve created a Self-Intelligence framework so individuals can understand, accept, and embrace themselves and have a clear direction for their lives.
It’s my goal to teach people how they can feel empowered every day.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/elle-hart-ba105995/https://www.feelempoweredeveryday.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E132 - Parker Terrato - Fall In Love With Fantasy and Supernatural Fiction
Parker is a 29 year old indie author and artist out of New Mexico. They fell in love with fantasy and supernatural fiction at an early age, devouring any book they could get their hands on and eventually teaching themselves to write, draw and paint.
https://parkerterrato.crd.co/https://www.instagram.com/parker_terrato/https://twitter.com/bunnyboi93https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100088959300283https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E131 - Lana McAra - Multi Author, Ghost Writer - From Being Rejected for years to Full-Time Author
Lana McAra is an award winning, international best-selling author and ghostwriter of more than 40 titles with nearly a million books sold (many under the pseudonym Rosey Dow), including two cookbooks. An author via traditional publishing for 30 years, she has been editing and ghostwriting for more than 20 years, working for WinePress Publishing as well as Author One Stop and individual clients.
She won the national Christy Award for Reaping the Whirlwind in 2001--scheduled for re-release in June, 2023--and her historical cozy mystery series, Colorado, sold more than 250,000 copies. Her titles have appeared around the world in bookstores and libraries in regular print, large print editions and audiobooks. To view a list of her recent releases, click here.
Going through a divorce after a 30-year marriage, Lana took a hiatus from her own fiction work and focused on ghostwriting while adjusting to her new life. She is about to release her new cozy mystery series entitled The Englewood Medium: Shaken But Not Stirred.
Lana lives in Central Arizona where she very much enjoys country living in the high desert mountains.
http://HowToWriteANovelThatSells.com
http://LanaMcAra.comhttps://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E130 - Mark Herschberg - Creator of the Brain Bump App and Author of The Career Toolkit
Mark Herschberg is the author of The Career Toolkit: Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You and creator of the Brain Bump app.
From tracking criminals and terrorists on the dark web to creating marketplaces and new authentication systems, Mark has spent his career launching and developing new ventures at startups and Fortune 500s and in academia, with over a dozen patents to his name. He helped to start the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, dubbed MIT’s “career success accelerator,” where he teaches annually. At MIT, he received a B.S. in physics, a B.S. in electrical engineering & computer science, and a M.Eng. in electrical engineering & computer science, focusing on cryptography.
At Harvard Business School, Mark helped create a platform used to teach finance at prominent business schools. He also works with many non-profits, currently serving on the board of Plant A Million Corals. He was one of the top-ranked ballroom dancers in the country and now lives in New York City, where he is known for his social gatherings, including his annual Halloween party, as well as his diverse cufflink collection.
https://www.cognoscomedia.com/
https://www.thecareertoolkitbook.com/https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 129 - Michelle Burke Author of HOT MESS MAGIC - Discover the magic in your mess
ARE YOU READY TO DISCOVER THE MAGIC IN YOUR MESS?
Let's face it each and everyone of us is a hot mess!
You, me, your mom, your great aunt Sally, we've all been on the hot mess express and some of us are still on it. Life is messy. It’s also magical and this is what Michelle shares in Hot Mess Magic, as she gets real and raw sharing her own hot messes, the magic she discovered from them and how she navigated through it all.
You’ll laugh. You’ll cry. You’ll relate.
You’ll learn you’re not alone or going crazy.
You'll be reminded how no one has it all it all together and most importantly HOW we get ourselves into these messes.
HOT MESS MAGIC - Discover the magic in your messhttps://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 128 - Dr. Libby Wilson - Discover Your Best Life With Dr. Libby's Functional MedicineAbout the Author
Libby Wilson, M.D., loves to learn all things about health and fitness and share it with others. Her passion lies in helping people achieve optimal health as naturally as possible. She believes strongly in identifying the root cause of illness. Her expertise lies in interpreting labs and designing supplement programs to help patients feel better, so they can then implement the necessary lifestyle changes to live a long, healthy, and meaningful life.
The Book:
The Path of Intention : Five Habits to Optimize Your Health and Create a Life You LoveIn The Path of Intention, you learn:
- How to create the life of your dreams and how to discover optimal health
- How to live your best life now instead of waiting for retirement, when the kids are grown, or when life slows down
- How to optimize the five habits of health, which are the secrets to longevity
- Actionable steps to meet you where you are in each of the five areas and level up your health by implementing one small change at a time
- How small, consistent actions today are like deposits in your health and wellness bank account that will yield a lifetime of physical and mental freedom
The Path of Intention helps you turn a good life into an amazing life. It helps you focus on building a plan to prioritize the areas of life that lead to true fulfillment and optimal health.
www.bestlifefunctionalmedicine.comhttp://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 127 - Jennifer Rose Asher Journey to my Daughter - An Adoption Story With A Lesson in Trust and Timing
Jennifer shares her journey in search of her daughter here on Living The Next Chapter
About the Author
Jennifer Rose Asher has a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a master’s degree in counseling psychology from The Adler School of Professional Psychology. She has worked in the adoption field, both as a birthmother counselor and as a consultant for adoptive families. Journey to My Daughter is her first book.
Jennifer lives in the Dallas area with her husband, three children, and several dogs. She is an animal lover with a passion for horses. She rides her two quarter horses on a drill team that performs at local rodeos.
"This book is my adoption story, but it is much more than that. It is also the story of how I discovered what is important in life and how I learned to trust the universe."
Journey to My Daughteris about becoming a mother. It details everything from author Jennifer Rose Asher’s decision to have a child, two miscarriages, a whirlwind trip to Vietnam, and how she eventually found her daughter. Along the way, Jennifer and her husband tried multiple approaches while looking for a child and would never have predicted how and where they would find her.
This memoir is also about self-discovery. It’s as much a tale about recognizing and following signs from the universe as it is a story about family. Along the way, Asher learns to release her driven, forceful nature just enough to allow herself to follow the tide of the journey, making her quest more peaceful and allowing her to achieve her goal of motherhood. Whether you’re a prospective adoptive parent, have experienced a miscarriage, or have no plans to have children at all, Journey to My Daughter will help you find solace, hope, and a few laughs along the way.
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E125 - Mart-Mari Breedt - Eighty Kilos (176 lbs) of Shame - The Process of Losing the Emotional Weight
Today we welcome Mart-Mari Breedt from Johannesburg as she shares her amazing journey with us!
After spending most of her life obese, weighing in at one-hundred-and-sixty-five kilograms (364 lbs) at her heaviest, Mart-Mari Breedt, software engineer and mother of four, lost just over eighty kilograms (176 lbs) in a mammoth battle against the scale. She then found herself in a frightening dilemma: how would she manage to keep the weight off and maintain her massive loss after she had spent her entire life as a morbidly obese person? All she had ever known was how to be fat. Being thin was a new and daunting experience.
In her dazzling debut memoir, Mart-Mari asks hard to answer questions: Can you recover from obesity? Is it possible to maintain a weight loss of eighty kilograms?
There are so many books on how to lose weight — an entire industry has been built around it, yet so little — apart from stick to your eating plan, keep exercising and continue to be perfect — is written about keeping the kilos off and maintaining one’s weight.
Refusing to accept defeat and realizing that she cannot spend the rest of her life obsessed with her scale, Mart-Mari started blogging about her maintenance challenges, which turned into an introspection journey. In the process, she dug deep, confronting long-buried emotions. Along the way, she found her true self, who had still been hiding in eighty kilograms of shame.
About the Author
Mart-Mari Breedt is a South African software engineer with an honours degree in science and maths. She is also a very happily married mother of four beautiful children — two boys and two girls. From February 2017 to December 2019, she’s lost 80 kg (176 lb). Her writing is about her introspection journey maintaining this massive weight loss. Her stories are honest and vulnerable and aimed at challenging you to do your own introspection.
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E125 - Linda Presto - Where’s My Wine Glass - Getting Your Kid to College Without Losing Your Mind
The Book: "Where’s My Wine Glass?!, Getting Your Kid to College Without Losing Your Mind" is a frolicking collection of humorous essays for parents of children who are prepping for, leaving for, or attending college. As a long-time college coach, private tutor, and parent of two failure-to-launch college graduates, Linda Presto’s sarcastic voice, no-nonsense tone, and years of experience deliver a much-needed respite from the insanity and competition of acceptance to college. Parents in this stage need a laugh and some straight talk about the process and its pitfalls. Linda is a self-deprecating, yet knowledgeable narrator, who takes parents on a journey through the highlight reel of what they hope will end in smarter kids… and less laundry. Addressing subjects like college visits, university rankings, and empty nest syndrome, Linda’s personal accounts and anecdotes from years of working with students and parents shed light on the universal nature of rearing children and the parents who only want the best for them. That and they want them off their couch!
Our Guest: Linda is a freelance writer, tutor, and college coach working with students and offering tummy rubs to their pets. Linda hikes, bikes, and boats, with her best bud and “rescuer” Jackson, who gives the best hugs even without opposable thumbs.
Linda is a journalist, teacher, and essayist, who earned her MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.
She is releasing her first humor book, “Where’s My Wine Glass?! Getting Your Kid to College Without Losing Your Mind” while snickering at her own jokes. Linda teaches Writing at her community college, tutors students, and began a reading series for local writers in New Jersey.
https://lindapresto.com/https://livingthenextchapter.co
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 124 - Sara Jewell - Author with Multiple Books, Imposter Feelings, Knowing Your Audience
Our Guest - About the Author
Sara Jewell's latest book, Solomon's Concubine takes the reader through the palace and land of the great King Solomon. See a different side to a king who was given wealth, wisdom, and power by the one true God. Meet Nalussa, one of Solomon's favorite concubines who wrestles with his privilege and how she holds onto the hope that God will rescue her. With all his wives and concubines, did King Solomon die outside of God's will? The Queen of Sheba offers insight.
Sara's adult books, Blink, an end times novel, and Of Friends and Followers a historical biblical fiction, are written for adults interested in how the stories of the Bible transcend through all generations.
Sara Jewell's first children's book is self-published Count of Worm. Her second book for young people, is A Christmas Dinosaur with Yellow Eyes. It is also an audio book. Check out Audible.com. Her third book, Visit from A Shepherd Boy continues with the same characters from A Christmas Dinosaur only with new adventures pre-teens and teens will enjoy.
Sara's ministry, TeamofGod.org encourages all ages to read and study the Bible as well as assisting those in need. Her programs have included projects in Africa and the United States. Sara holds a BFA degree and a MA degree in Bible Studies.
https://www.teamofgod.org/
Sara's books on Amazon
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 123 - Enoch Leffingwell - I Want A Mentor, Now What Do I Do
Enoch Leffingwell. Enoch is an international speaker, best-selling author of the book "I Want A Mentor, Now What Do I Do?", and business advisor with a heart to serve.
He mentors authors, speakers, coaches, and other high-level entrepreneurs on how to expand their influence, multiply their income, and increase their impact online.
The Book - I Want a Mentor... Now What Do I Do?
How To Meet New Mentors, Maximize Mentorships, & Master Any Skill in Half the Time
An easy guide for choosing the right mentor.
If you want to avoid learning from your mistakes, & start learning from the mistakes of others then this book is for you.
Enoch will be revealing some of the best-kept secrets of mentors & what most business leaders won’t tell you about mentorship.
Succeeding in your life & business is less about your qualification and more about your association.
Enoch’s book is one of those books that EVERYONE should have! Enoch is on a mission to coach and provide value in such a way to show his followers and readers “How to Meet New Mentors Maximize Mentorships & Master Any Skill in Half the time.” His book does just that and more and he shares all of his Scripture quotations from the King James Version of the Bible.
This is not your typical self-help book nor is it a self-help manual. This is a well documented, easy to read and apply to your own way to learn and overcome the challenges that you may be facing as an entrepreneur. Warning, as a result of reading Enoch’s book, you may experience major breakthroughs and achieve higher levels of success!
To connect with Enoch further, please check out his websites and various social media platforms:
https://www.enochleffingwell.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 122 - Robert Peterson - The Entrepreneur Mindset Shift - Growth Characteristics of Success
Our guest:
Meet Robert
Robert is passionate about helping entrepreneurs and small business owners step into their happiness and emotional freedom by taking control of their time. He is the other half of the Smiling Coaching Couple and author of Entrepreneur Mindset $hift. Robert helps entrepreneurs to take responsibility for what they want and take the steps necessary to reach their dreams.
He works with you on your daily goals for your business and your life by raising awareness of your calendar, thoughts and values so that you can retake control of the hours you have.
The Book: The Entrepreneur Mindset Shift
Growth Characteristics of Success
This book offers practical advice on how to change your thoughts in order to change your world.
From the Foreword by Andrew Cordle, CEO of Money Is
This book will be a game-changer for those who understand its importance, and that’s the catch-some will miss the point entirely because of their wrong mindset. Robert has come to understand that mindset is the singular make-or-break characteristic for entrepreneurs. Those who embrace the mindset of growth, accountability, integrity, creativity, and fearlessness outlined in this book will no doubt go on to accomplish great things that impact the world. Those who can’t outgrow their comfort zones and stay trapped in a mindset of doubt instead of belief, scarcity instead of bountifulness, or fear instead of love and hope are bound to fail.
https://www.addvalue2life.com/
The Podcast
https://www.addvalue2life.com/podcast
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 121 - DR. ILYA SKOLNIKOFF - The Skolnikoff Method - And The New Medicine
Dt. Ilya Skolnikoff joins us to discuss his book - The Skolnikoff Method - And The New Medicine
The Book: Imagine yourself consistently having boundless energy, restful sleep, amazing sex, clear and accurate thinking and feeling your best?---you are your perfect weight.
The Skolnikoff Method offers you a completely different approach with a safe, scientifically validated and proven, surgical-free, doctor-approved system for ridding yourself of PMS, insomnia, inflammation, and blood sugar imbalances while decreasing or eliminating the meds you are using
When you follow the OFF Formula, you will have the Oxygen and air you need for good health. You know what type of Food to eat and how much to eat how often. Your life becomes Fun again. The OFF Formula helps you to get On Track with the life and health you have always dreamed of.
Start walking down the Skolnikoff Method’s Path To Health today so you can reclaim your life and health. The longer you wait to relieve your symptoms, the more likely those symptoms will move toward becoming permanent. Start now.
Dr. Skolnikoff shares with us how instead of just giving out prescriptions for symptoms, that we need to get back to the root of the cause and solve our health issues at their source
Dr. Ilya has interacted with many major celebrities and popular medical minds and he shares his stories and suggestions with us on how we can live better today.
https://skolnikoff.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 120 - Dylan Brennan - Author of Noble - Betrayed
The Author: Dylan Brennan is a 16-year-old up-and-coming writer living in London. He's an avid reader, musician, student and gamer but writes a chapter whenever he seizes the chance. Due to a long-held passion for the fantasy genre, the intense boredom of the 2020 pandemic inspired Dylan to begin work on 'Noble: Betrayed', an epic fantasy novel serving as the first instalment of the 'Noble' series.
The book: The world bleeds. Lord Simon Pargion is instantly hesitant when his old friend King Emannar Woodgairrd offers him the role of High Earl in his Kingdom. But while he serves as a leading figure of a collapsing country, his family back home deal with the struggles of maintaining their House, and Emannar's court get wrapped up in the discovery of a cunning plot designed to assassinate the King, resulting in many a casualty. Noble: Betrayed is the first instalment of the Noble series, set in Dylan Brennan's epic fantasy world.
The Bookhttps://www.instagram.com/elbrennan51/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E119 - Douglas Weissman - Fiction Autor, Travel Writer and Screen Writer - Crafting a Story Arc
The Author: Douglas Weissman is a graduate of the Master of Fine Arts program in Creative Writing at the University of San Francisco.
He have traveled and lived all over the world, including Italy, and currently live in Los Angeles with my gorgeous wife, fun-loving daughter, anxious dog, and indifferent cat.
By the time you read this, they will probably have yet another cat.
The Book: For fans of Karen Russell’s Swamplandia!comes a new tale of found family and magic. Unfolding over three decades, Life Between Seconds sets Peter and Sophia on a collision course with their respective pasts propelling them toward either redemption or damnation. Engrossing, heartbreaking, and surreal Douglas Weissman’s first adult novel is a meditation on trauma, family, and how to heal after a great loss.
Life Between Seconds
https://www.douglasweissman.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 118 - Rachel Dickinson - The Loneliest Places - A Mother's Response to Her Son's Suicide
Rachel Dickinson writes about travel, history, bits of science, and anything else that interests her from her home in perpetually cloudy Upstate New York. Her latest book THE LONELIEST PLACES: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home (Cornell Press, 2022) is a collection of essays that took her a decade to write after the death by suicide of her 17-year-old son Jack.
She's the author of six other books including AMERICAN DYNASTIES (2021), THE NOTORIOUS RENO GANG, an account of the world's first train robbers, and FALCONER ON THE EDGE, where she followed a hardcore falconer through a hunting season in Wyoming.
She has an MFA in Nonfiction from Goucher College, did graduate work in American History at the University of Delaware, and has a geology degree from Kirkland College.
https://www.amazon.com/Rachel-Dickinson/e/B0034NKTTC
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 117 - Frank Zafiro - From Behind the Badge and Beyond the Crime Scene to Writing and Authorship
Frank Scalise who writing under the pen name of Frank Zafiro. Frank served in the U.S. Army from 1986-91 in Military Intelligence as a Czechoslovak linguist. In 1993, he became a police officer in Spokane, Washington. During his career, he worked as a patrol officer, corporal, and detective before entered into leadership roles, becoming a sergeant in 2002.
He was fortunate enough to command patrol officers, investigators, K-9 officers (and their dogs!), and the SWAT team. Frank retired from law enforcement in 2013 as a captain in order to write full time and to teach. From 2013-17, he taught law enforcement subject matter at the community college and university, and leadership as a national instructor for a prominent police institution. He also occasionally teaches a series of writing workshops.
Frank has held the #1 author spot for police procedurals on Amazon. Frank’s books are available in all formats — paperback, ebook, and audiobook. Frank began writing seriously at about thirteen.
In 1995, he started a draft of Under A Raging Moon, which would become the first book in the River City series of crime fiction. Since then, Frank has completed multiple novels set in River City, a fictional version of Spokane, Washington.
http://www.frankzafiro.com/
Frank's Podcast - http://www.frankzafiro.com/wrong-place-write-crime/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 116 -
Duane McHodgkins Author of Lessons from the Business Heroes of the Pandemic
How to ensure you stay "Essential".
During the height of the pandemic, in April 2020, the unemployment rate was at 14.7 percent. Lessons from the Business Heroes of the Pandemic was written for all of the people who were put on the sidelines during the pandemic. By following these rules, you can make sure you never get sidelined again.
This book is filled with many ideas and real-life examples that anyone can use to better their situation. Whether you own a business, do contract work, or work for someone else this book can help you.
Lessons from the Business Heroes of the Pandemic - isn’t a “how to” book. It is a book that will give you the tools to keep yourself “Essential” the next time the government or health department decides to close your world.
https://www.instagram.com/businessheroesbook/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E115 - Eric Maynard - Host of Author Blurb Podcast and Author of a Trilogy
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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Jennifer Garrett - SUIT UP. SHOW UP. AND MOVE THE BALL - Football and Life Intersect
Jennifer A. Garrett is an internationally recognized leadership coach, speaker, author, Army lawyer, and former Fortune 100 corporate executive who has a passion for helping and inspiring others, pushing boundaries, and driving individuals and organizations out of their comfort zones to achieve higher levels of success. Jen has become known as a high-performance strategist, branding architect, and virtual training expert by teaching individuals how to cross the goal line by using principles from American football and her Move the Ball frameworks. With her football and business expertise, Jen’s organization, Feel the Push, also works with athletes as they transition “off the field” to be all-star players in life beyond the game.
In the business world, Jennifer is recognized as an outstanding leader. She has worked in many challenging positions, where she demonstrated that she could lead teams, inspire others, and deliver results. She sets high expectations for herself first, never making excuses and always holding herself accountable.
Jen’s diverse educational background, coupled with her extensive corporate executive leadership and military experience as an Army Judge Advocate officer, gives Jen a diverse skillset that is well-suited to connect with audiences around the world and help individuals and organizations to “MOVE THE BALL” and achieve desired outcomes.
https://www.jenniferagarrett.com/
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E113 - Ari Field - What Does Heaven Look Like - How to Live a Life That Matters
Momma Guinea is tucking her little piggies in to bed, when one of them asks
"What does Heaven look like?".
Momma answers by putting Heaven into a here and now perspective, and explains how Heaven can be seen all around us!
Steven Curtis Chapman - Heaven In The Real World
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E112 - Fred Rutman - Living Life After Dying Twenty Times
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E111 - Perley-Ann Friedman - From Tourist to Resident, Retiring on the Island of Koh Lanta, Thailand
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Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E110 - Patty Block - Helping Women Business Owners Generate More Revenue with Less Stress - What's Next for Your Business
In 2006, I created The Block Group to empower women business owners who are experts in their fields. As their trusted advisor, I bring a unique perspective, having experienced and solved many of the same complex issues we face as women, as leaders, as moms, daughters and sisters.
62% of women rely on their businesses for their primary income, yet 88% of these businesses generate less than $100,000 in annual revenue.
Having seen the same struggles time and again, I teach women how to shift their mindset and build their confidence to generate more revenue with less stress by reimagining pricing and selling.
I’m a firm believer that, when women earn more, everyone around them benefits - their staff, their family and their community.
This meaningful work allows me to fulfill my mission of turning roadblocks into building blocks for women-owned businesses.
Clients often refer to me as their “business therapist” and “secret weapon” because I form strong relationships, understand and refine their company’s internal workings, and serve as a strategic sounding board.
I’ve raised three wonderful humans and have now welcomed their partners into our family. My kids have the entrepreneurial bug too and I’m so proud of them!
https://theblockgroup.net/
https://nextstepsnavigation.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E109 - Greg Cagle - How to grow a culture that embraces our unique weirdness
Greg Cagle isn’t for everyone. Some might say he’s an acquired taste. They might even say he’s one weird dude.
Over the course of his entrepreneurial career, he has started five successful businesses in industries as diverse as real estate development, engineering and tech, food services and hospitality, and advertising and marketing.
Everything he’s ever done, he’s built from ground zero. He knows what it feels like to lie awake on Tuesday night wondering how to make payroll on Friday.
As a coach and consultant, he’s come alongside the top leaders and businesses in even wider-ranging fields:
- Army Special Operations
- Steel and diesel engine manufacturing
- 5-star hospitality
- Cutting-edge technology and software
- Non-profit educational systems and higher education
- Financial and insurance
- Oil and gas engineering
He has also partnered with John C. Maxwell and his company for many years as an executive coach, speaker, trainer, and business consultant.
You’ll discover how to:
- Know who YOU truly are at the core,
- Leverage the power of YOU to increase your influence, and
- Enjoy the deeply-fulfilling and satisfying life you’ve always felt was possible.
Culture can become an organization’s secret weapon or an invisible burden. The good news is that when leaders learn to shape it, they can design and deploy a culture that employees are eager to promote and protect.
https://gocagle.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/greg-cagle-b145737/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 108 - Catherine Manfre Author of Not There YET - A Story of Engagement and Community
Our Guest: Catherine Manfre is a business and strategy advisor and consultant with an MBA from the University of Virginia, Darden School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies from New York University. She has advised private and public sector organizations on a range of business and management challenges and is passionate about solving the hardest, most difficult problems. She lived in Cairo, Egypt for four years where she learned Arabic, met her husband, and became an Egyptian street food connoisseur.
She enjoys running through Rock Creek Park and spending every minute she can with her incredible daughter and husband.
The Book: Not There Yet - September 11th, January 25th, and January 6th.
No one knows a date will become shorthand for a world-changing event when they are brushing their teeth and getting ready for their day.
Barely a teenager on 9/11, Catherine explores her journey from small-town Florida to Cairo, Egypt and back, an unexpected road that put her in a country navigating a decision about which direction it would take.
Catherine talks about her perspective on the events leading up to the Egyptian revolution in 2011, the exhaust of hope, fear, and uncertainty it left behind. She also explores how current day America can learn from the events in Egypt, appreciate and protect our democracy, and work to extend those benefits more equitably.
She also fell in love. And met the man that would become her husband.
https://www.catherinemanfre.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 107 - Michal Stawicki - Polish Author and Coach - How Writing as a Side Hustle Led to a Change In Career Path
I'm Michal Stawicki and I live in Poland, Europe. I've been married for over 19 years and am the father of two boys and one girl. I worked full time in the IT industry before becoming an author. My passions are transparency, integrity and progress.
In August 2012, I read a book called "The Slight Edge" by Jeff Olson. It took me a whole month to start implementing ideas from this book. That led me to reading numerous other books on personal development, some effective, some not so much. I took a look at myself and decided this was one person who could surely use some development.
In November of 2012, I created my personal mission statement; I consider it the real starting point of my progress. Over several months time, I applied several self-help concepts and started building inspiring results: I lost some weight, greatly increased my savings, built new skills and got rid of bad habits while developing better ones.
My books are not abstract. I avoid going mystical as much as possible. I don't believe that pure theory is what we need in order to change our lives; the Internet age has proven this quite clearly. What you will find in my books are:
- detailed techniques and methods describing how you can improve your skills and drive results in specific areas of your life
- real life examples
- personal stories
So, whether you are completely new to personal development or have been crazy about the Law of Attraction for years, if you are looking for concrete strategies, you will find them in my books. My writing shows that I am a relatable, ordinary guy and not some ivory tower guru.
http://expandbeyondyourself.com
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E106 - Kelly Featheringham - Daily Impacts of Basic Behaviors of Leadership
Our Guest - Kelly has over 25 years of professional experience ranging from the halls of Capitol Hill to the fiercely competitive boardrooms of corporate consulting to grassroots operations helping to build a business from the ground up and finally to the relentless bureaucracy of federal government service. She is a devoted and determined leader who has a talent for hiring and assembling power teams that take success to the next level.
Kelly excelled professionally at remote leadership for cross-functional international teams. She was consistently called upon to “parachute in” to assess what was not working, optimize the old or design a new strategy, assembly the right team, and provide implementation and sustainability oversight for success. This is one of her key talents that she draws on when coaching executives on how to build high-performance teams.
The Book: Maximizing Team Performance by Mastering Your ABCs: Assumptions - Boundaries - Communication
This book will help you understand the daily impacts of basic behaviors of leadership. You will see real-world examples applied through multiple case studies and examples of how you can adapt your skills immediately to lead your team confidently and build a cohesive team around trust, respect, and hard work.
https://kellyfeatheringham.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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E105 - Stephanie Wilson - A Trip Around the World, Homelessness and Finding Yourself
Meet Stephanie
Stephanie Wilson believes storytelling can save lives. Her MBA and over a decade of artistic training both help her live out that passion.
Stephanie resides in New York City’s Upper West Side with her scruffy Puerto Rican street dog, Luna.
The Book: Big Waves & Wooden Benches: A True Story
Well, if you’re Stephanie Wilson, you sell all your earthly possessions and set sail around the world for 115 days seeking answers. But big adventures often end with bigger questions, and sometimes truly finding yourself requires the courage to further surrender into the signs and synchronicities.
From big waves on the horizon, pregnant with seemingly endless possibility, to wooden benches in NYC parks portending gloom and despair, Stephanie’s journey of divining the omens and learning how to trust her own quiet knowing, especially against the false sense of stability in the world around her, will resonate deeply with any reader who has ever had the scary and sinking feeling that there must be more to life—along with the will to find the answer.
You can follow along with chapter by chapter photos at IG: @bigwaveswoodenbenches or at *https://www.thestephaniewilson.com/
Andy Frye, write for Rolling Stone and Forbes calls it, "a conjuring of Jack Kerouac with a smarter, more feminine tone. It’s a good read for anyone who loves travel lit with a cozy and sometimes frightening look at post-modern life."
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 104 - Allison Coutts - Author of Fall Into Midnight - A Queer Love Story and a Discussion about Becoming Who You Are
Our guest today offers a Queer Love Story and more about their journey as an Author and as a person. Allison shares this new book - Fall Into Midnight by Arden Coutts
Arden - Allie shares more about the pen name used for this book and the significance behind why Arden was chosen to write under.
I am a podcaster, first and foremost. It’s my passion, and I don’t know where I would be without it. Currently, I have three podcasts: My first podcast, The Fun with Friends Podcast, my summer break podcast, What Ya Streamin’?, and my latest podcast, The Wandering Creatives Podcast. I’m so very proud of every one of my podcasts because I never thought it was something that I would be doing and enjoy so much.
I’m most proud of my latest podcast, The Wandering Creatives Podcast, because it’s all about sharing the voices of the creatives and makers behind the products you love. I get so much joy from meeting other creatives and hearing their stories, and I love being a platform for them to share their voices and love what they do.
The Book: Fall Into Midnight by Arden Coutts
A little more information about me :)
https://voyageraleigh.com/interview/rising-stars-meet-allie-coutts-of-bailey/
Arden's business: CEI Media
Branding & Marketing
www.couttscreations.com
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for Spring 2023
Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling
A five-time Moth Grand SLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story - and why doing so matters.
Whether we realize it or not, we are always telling stories. On a first date or job interview, at a sales presentation or therapy appointment, with family or friends, we are constantly narrating events and interpreting emotions and actions. In this compelling book, storyteller extraordinaire Matthew Dicks presents wonderfully straightforward and engaging tips and techniques for constructing, telling, and polishing stories that will hold the attention of your audience (no matter how big or small). He shows that anyone can learn to be an appealing storyteller, that everyone has something “storyworthy” to express, and, perhaps most important, that the act of creating and telling a tale is a powerful way of understanding and enhancing your own life.
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EPISODE 103 -
Michael Winstead is an attorney and author. He has been battling within our justice system for more than three decades. Ultimate Verdict, about a Judge who decides to operate outside of the lines, is his first novel. Winstead writes from inspirational venues, including the mountains of Western North Carolina and the serene surroundings of historical St. Augustine, Florida.
Michael Winstead's Ultimate Trilogy follows the courtroom adventures of Judge Raleigh Westlake as he navigates good vs. evil, the quest for justice, and everything in between. Inspired by Winstead's career as a lawyer, each installment
of this series will keep readers guessing until the very end.
The TrilogyUltimate Verdict
Ultimate Deception
Ultimate Truth
Ella's Wings
https://michaelwinstead.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 102 -
In this episode of Living The Next Chapter, I have a conversation with about The Forest of Reading - an initiative to put the joy back into reading for Ontario Students and beyond!
The Forest of Reading is Canada’s largest recreational reading program! This initiative offers ten reading programs to encourage a love of reading in people of all ages. The Forest helps celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators. More than 270,000 readers participate annually from their school and/or public library. All Canadians are invited to participate via their local public library, school library, or individually.
The Forest of Reading Award Programs are where children and young adults pick the winner! Readers choose a program that they would like to be a part of, usually based on their age or grade, and simply begin reading! They can read all ten of the titles, or pick and choose to read only the ones they are interested in. Participants are encouraged to read at least five of the ten titles to be eligible to vote in April. This program aims to encourage a genuine and life-long love of reading among readers of all ages.
Goals of the Forest of Reading
Love of reading: Create a meaningful experience for your readers and give exciting opportunities for reluctant readers to become lifelong readers.
A proven head start: The results are in! Children who read for fun have higher literacy scores, have more success in science and math, and are more socially and civically engaged (Reading for Joy, P4E, 2011).
Libraries at centre stage: With fun activities, prizes and more, the Forest of Reading puts libraries at the heart of the action!
Reading Canadian: Help support and celebrate Canadian books, publishers, authors and illustrators by taking advantage of the Forest’s curated, all-Canadian reading lists for all ages and levels.
What is the Forest of Reading?
The Forest of Reading® is Canada’s largest recreational reading progra
A podcast is an excellent business card for your book, coaching program or business! Build a community away from the rented land of social media - speak directly to your community and position yourself as the expert that you truly are!
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 101 -
Kristina Lucia Andrews - Handmade Crochet Characters and Accompanying Children's Story Book
Combining her talents to create gorgeous handmade crochet creations with her book to bring these characters to life!
Kristina Lucia is an artist, creator, and author who ignites the imaginations of children and their parents through her limited edition animals and touching storybooks. Her humble beginnings in a small farm town (there was only one traffic light!) sparked her creativity at a young age and her adopted home of New York City keeps her inspired daily. Curiously Curated Creations of Kristina Lucia features a magical array of warm, cuddly and comforting creatures along with storybooks that help parents and kids
improve their communication and deepen their relationships.
Whether she is strutting down Fifth Avenue in Manolos or curled up on her sofa in slipper socks, Kristina is ready to create a masterpiece. Her crochet hooks and knitting needles are always within reach to whip up anything from stuffies to baby sweaters, while her kitchen table is often covered with her watercolor paints and brushes or freshly baked cookies.
After an injury forced her to reconsider her 100-mile-an-hour corporate career, Kristina realized her true path: to be the artist she was meant to be. The door of Curiously Curated Creations of Kristina Lucia opened upon her receiving a sign from her Mom. The journey began in November 2019.
Kristina is also a competitive dancer, an avid reader, and travel buff. When she is not working, you can find her in the studio dancing her cha cha, with her nose in a book, or exploring a new destination.
Free link for viewers:
https://www.subscribepage.com/a-simple-activity-to-spend-quality-time-with-your-child
https://cccokl.com/
https://cccokl.com/bella-lucia-book-series-of-kristina-lucia/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 100 -
Dominick Domasky - Our 100th Episode Monumental Moments and how to celebrate the little things
In this episode we discuss the Importance of Gratitude in Daily Life
There are many ways in which you can cultivate your gratitude, there are some people who would say that gratitude doesn’t have to be something that has to be cultivated because it’s the most natural thing in the world.
Others say it is an art form, something you have to work at in order to perfect.
5 Ways to Sweat the Small Stuff and Live a More Fulfilled Life
The small stuff matters and we should spend time paying attention to it.
1 - Understand what you want from life and make those wants known
2 - Start your day right, with a healthy mindset
3 - Find someone who will hold you accountable for the small stuff in life
4 - Celebrate the small victories
5 - Know your limits as an individual and don’t push yourself beyond those limits (Are there limits? Dom challenges this thought!)
Dominick was our very first guest back in episode 3, Dom returns now to look back over 100 episodes and we take a moment to thank and encourage Dom with voice messages from his very own group of Authors that he has helped over the years! Stick around to the very end to hear 12 minutes of love displayed to Dom by those that love him the most.
Dave
Dom's links
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11634082/
https://www.motivationchamps.com/
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Take your passion to the next level - let us help you start and grow your podcast! Podcasts work.
Visit https://truemediasolutions.ca/
Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 99 -
Fred Rutman - Living Life After Dying Twenty Times. Fred's new book is coming out March 9th 2024
Fred Rutman, aka “Repeatedly Dead Fred” was a marketer/consultant and then went into academia as a college professor. He taught MBA, Marketing and Finance for a number of years. After acquiring his MBA, his weight really ballooned, up to 340 pounds. He did all the CICO methods, tried a bariatric doctor (no surgery) and exercised his butt off. He eventually got down to about 280, where he plateaued. Then, the summer of 2009 came crashing down on him and forced him into permanent medical leave.
His heart was stopping and was clinically dead dozens of times. Each time his heart stopped, he collapsed and hit his head, sustaining multiple concussions.
In 2018, he learned about intermittent fasting and life hasn’t been the same for Fred since. He attributes the large majority of his recovery to the healing powers of IF. He reversed T2 diabetes and some of its related issues, and is no longer asthmatic. His sleep apnea even went away. There is still some perpetual anxiety, PTSD and Post-Concussion Syndrome but it gets better every day.
Visit https://www.linkedin.com/in/fredrutman/ to learn more or to connect with Fred.
Fred Shared these great book suggestions in this episode
Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life - Anne Lamott
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 98 -
Our guest today shares her new children's book that addresses bullying!
From Head to Heart Book Description:
Gwen is a young girl who, driven by bullying, builds a wall around her heart. To protect herself, she decides to live in her head, but the barrier around her heart prevents her from experiencing the vibrancy of life.
For teachers, social workers, parents, children and those who care for them, this book opens discussions about feelings. From Head to Heart encourages kids to reach out for the help they need to gain better mental health.
Available in English or French
Wanda Davis, M.Sc.,B.Sc.,B.Ed., is the author of the book From Head to Heart and lives in London, Ontario. Wanda has been an educator for over 20 years in many roles including special education support and teacher-librarian with the Thames Valley District School Board. She is also a certified coach, professional speaker, and best-selling author. Wanda supports others to discover their gifts and live through their heart.
My book is available from Chapters/Indigo
By Volumes Publishing or by the author directly.
French version available through the same places.
In the US via Amazon
Kindl
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Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
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Surrender, An Audiobook by Bono of U2 - Dave's Audible Recommendation
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrender is an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded reimagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 97 -
Take flight with Dominic Slice Teich, Founder of Single Seat Mindset. Dom is a fighter pilot and instructor. We strap into the cockpit and lift off in this episode - find out what it is like to fly the most advanced jets, what it is like to request the Good Year Blimp to move to out of the way so that Dom and his team could do a NASCAR fly over! Dom takes the lessons that he has learned from his perspective and has created and crafted books that are written from a fighter pilot's point of view and easily applied to a reader!
Dom shares his inspiring message with you, this was an exciting interview for me as a host - I was able to ask some questions that I have always wondered about - check out this exciting conversation!
https://singleseatmindset.com/
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Dave's Audio Book Recommendation for November 2022
Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story - Bono
Bono—artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2—has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he’s lived, the challenges he’s faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him.
Narrated by the author, Surrenderis an intimate, immersive listening experience, telling stories from Bono’s early days in Dublin, to joining a band and playing sold out stadiums around the world with U2, plus his more than 20 years of activism.
Throughout a remarkable life, music has always been a constant for Bono and in the audiobook, his distinctive voice is interwoven with a very personal soundtrack adding atmosphere and texture to each and every scene. From moments of classic U2 hits to snippets by The Clash, Patti Smith, Verdi, Johnny Cash and Mozart, Surrender also exclusively features clips of newly recorded re imagined versions of U2 songs including ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’, ‘With Or Without You’, ‘One’, ‘Beautiful Day’ and more, glimpsed for the first time on Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
EPISODE 96 -
Heidy De La Cruz Blogger, Podcaster and Author of Words From The Heart
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EPISODE 95 -
Donnie Lansdale From Radio to Podcasting and Voicing Audiobooks
Voice Actor
Professional Narrator at audible.com Voice Over Service with 25 years of radio broadcasting experience.
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EPISODE 94 -
Win Charles Multi Author and Podcaster with Cerebral Palsy on a mission to help others with disabilities
Born with Cerebral Palsy, Win Charles has defied the odds by becoming an author. Her memoir I, Win is an amazing story of how she remembers her life through the years of having a condition called “CP”. Competing in the Kona Iron Man Triathlon, she truly is an inspiration to many. Today she is planning on touring the country and speaking to schools and institutions to raise awareness about cerebral palsy. She is also an advocate of veterans across the world.
After losing her mom Win decided to write “I, Win”, her own biography. It was an exciting process but she was not as happy with the end result as she could have been because the process was rushed. She knew she wanted to do things differently but she didn’t listen to her intuition and speak up so the book would be more polished and professional.
After a horrible experience in the hospital that caused her spine to go dead, Win was told she had to go through excruciating physical therapy and psychological treatment. She did the physical therapy but said “no thank you” to seeing a psychologist. Instead, she channeled her anger into art and then into a book which has opened up all new avenues in her life.
Win is tenacious. If she wants to get something she doesn’t stop until she has figured it out how to get it. She is resilient and persistent. If you want to get what you want, you have to figure it out!
The book: I, Win - At age 24 I decided to tell my story. Writing this autobiography gave me the opportunity to pay tribute to my family members who are passionate about life and have instilled this passion in me.
My parents' extraordinary support, encouragement, and pure love were my foundation as I navigated life, overcame obstacles, and achieved successes as a young woman with cerebral palsy. I have to pay full tribute to my mother, who died in August 2010. From her I learned to listen to my own voice as a guide to making life choices. She taught me to always expect the best from myself
https://www.instagram.com/askwin622/
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EPISODE 93 -
Meagan O'Nan - The Art of Telling a Great Story - The Journey from Unacceptance and Darkness to Finding Your Voice
Meagan O’Nan is an award-winning author, keynote speaker, and vulnerable storytelling expert. She is the author of the award-winning book, “Creating Your Heaven on Earth,” and “Courage: Agreeing to Disagree Is Not Enough.” Her third book is forthcoming and will be published in January 2023 with New Degree Press. Meagan is also a member of the Forbes Coaches Council where she produces regular content for Forbes.com.
Meagan has spoken to thousands of people at live events since 2008, including alongside internationally recognized spiritual leaders such as don Miguel Ruiz, author of the best-selling book, “The Four Agreements,” and she has appeared multiple times in local and national media. Meagan even received a personal note from Desmond Tutu after hearing a talk of hers on forgiveness.
Meagan is passionate about creating deeper connections through speaking, workshops, and through her executive speaker coaching. Her approach is unique in that she uses storytelling as a way to overcome differences and generate healing. For the last decade, she has been a significant voice for the LGBTQ community in Mississippi, speaking with pastors, university representatives and classes, on the radio, and on the news as a voice offering unity and cooperation. Meagan now lives with her wife, Clare, and their daughter, Merit, in Starkville, Mississippi.
Books:
Creating Your Heaven On Earth: Unveiling The Truth That Was Always There
Empowering and thought-provoking, Creating Your Heaven on Earth reminds us of the joy of living in the moment and of our creative potential to shape our world. Illustrated with insightful and touching stories this uplifting book captures the reader with its clarity of language and its profound messages. Author Meagan M. O'Nan holds two Masters degrees in the field of Disability and is completing her certification in Spiritual Life Coaching. Her belief that all people have a Divine nature and that everyone is capable of achieving their souls dreams is reflected throughout the pages of her book.
Courage: Agreeing To Disagree Is Not Enough
"Courage" is a thought-provoking and inspiring self-help memoir. Drawing on the life experiences of Meagan O'Nan, a gay woman from the Deep South, this book is a raw and poignant commentary on discrimination, both personal and societal, and how it is replayed in endless cycles.
https://www.meaganonan.com/
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EPISODE 92 -
Broken to Boldness LLC was created as an avenue to bring more awareness to domestic abuse. Completing my first novel, “Torched - Burnt By a Gaslighter”, is a fictionalized story based on actual events showing the impact of gaslighting on the victim and their families.
According to the Centers for Disease Control, approximately 43 million women and 38 million men will experience mental or emotional abuse by an intimate partner in their lifetime. Many are afraid to leave these abusive relationships for a variety of reasons - fear, shame, embarrassment, lack of education or job skills, or even because they have nowhere to go. I know these feelings all too well as I, too, experienced gaslighting (verbal abuse). It’s time to stop the abuse!
This website will be a source for education and resources to help educate on recognizing the red flags and provide avenues to empower those wanting to safely leave these relationships. Please check back often for the latest information
From the book: Martha celebrates a milestone birthday with her family and wonders whether her life has made the difference that she sought to make in this world all those years ago. But questions linger for Martha on the impact of her decision to leave her husband. Was it the best decision? How would her life be different now? What about the lives of her children?
Falling in love and marrying at a young age, Martha was not aware of gaslighting and its impact until seventeen years and three kids later, when a suicide attempt brought the abuse to the surface. What decision did Martha make to save her family?
Now years later, as Martha takes her four-year-old grandchild, Sydney, to the park, Martha meets Liz, a young woman with two small children. Martha quickly realizes that Liz is in an abusive relationship and tries to help Liz until tragedy strikes.
Griffiths reminds us that we are all susceptible to domestic abuse as it can be easily disguised as “love” by the perpetrator. It cuts right into the core of our human need to love and be loved and distorts any possibility of a healthy relationship.
Deborah Griffiths was born and raised in the greater Los Angeles area. She graduated with honors from Biola University with a Bachelors of Science degree in Organizational Leadership. This degree helped her advance in the homeowners association industry, where she has written several articles on common interest developments.
Always trying to broaden her horizons, Deborah chose to write her first novel revolving around the trauma inflicted by gaslighting. This novel is a fictionalized story of a woman’s quest to successfully rebuild her life with grace and courage following a painful divorce where she was a victim of domestic abuse.
Deborah is the proud mother of three grown children and considers her faith and family most important. She enjoys reading, needlework, genealogy, and playing “at” golf in her spare time.
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EPISODE 91 -
Aaira Kaurr - Self Love - the Power Within You - Unleash the Power of Self to Create Your Dream Life
About The Book -
Self Love: the Power Within You": Unleash the Power of Self to Create Your Dream Life
"I totally resonate with what is shared by the author Aaira through her book Self Love: The Power Within You. It's written in the most easy, lucid, simple manner and it can be understood even by a novice in the spiritual field. Reading this book itself can be an act of self-love and it definitely can make you a better version of yourself. My deep appreciations to this wonderful master Aaira who is courageous to speak the truth.” With Love, Brahmarshi Chakravarti Dr. Newton Kondaveti, MBBS, MD Founder & Chairman, Quantum Life University, Hyderabad
About the AuthorAaira is a distinguished Self-Love Coach and Wellness Consultant. She is a gifted soul with tranquil and mystical persona whose intuitive power, positive energy and practical methods allow her to connect and communicate from her heart, mind and Eternal Spirit. Her soothing sweet voice, brings a natural peaceful effect.
She is India's leading Self-Love Coach and an expert who has years of professional experience in transforming lives. She has shared her experience and knowledge with thousands of souls including celebrities, corporate leaders, trainers, coaches, authors and artists and extended her energy to heal and transform their life.
Her love for gemstones and creativity in Jewellery designing ,gave birth to her luxurious jewellery brand : Gems of Aaira. She is Founder of the Annant Dhyan Trust, NGO, aim to spread meditation practices and she is the Director of Connectedbeingz : The Wellness Consultancy , pioneering in alternative healing methodology.
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EPISODE 90 -
Ashley Abramson - Divorced not Destroyed -The Unicorn Effect
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EPISODE 89 -
Scandinavian Lifestyle Discovered. Susanna Heiskanen, I am an author and write about the Nordic lifestyle, with a hint of minimalism while making it look + feel super easy. I love inspiring and educating people who feel overwhelmed in their lives. I am an avid reader of books and I have just published my first book Nordic Lifestyle.
In my podcast and blog, I teach you how better use your time while making it all feel like a walk in the park.
Interested to find your Nordic vibe?
To start your Nordic Journey just listen to my podcast and read the blogs to get you started. You can discover more about me in my recent book Nordic Lifestyle and my journey from Finland to Australia.
Starting Nordic Mum Podcast was a way to express my Finnish identity and how I can sprinkle some Nordic life, Hygge to other people out there. I want to show how the simple Scandinavian lifestyle can be replicated where ever you are.
My Podcast and Blog give you insight on how I apply Nordic life simplicity to my lifestyle. I interview people from the Nordics who share their journeys, and what we can learn from them.
In the past, I have blogged on a variety of topics and contributed to articles in Mamamia , Herdacity, Rolcruise Blog, No Sidebar and Explore Nordic I have also been a quest on several podcasts such as Dream Home Movement, Eat the Damn Bread, Dialed In, How to Live Slow, Simply Happy Podcast and Balancing Cultures.
Let me help you to find balance in your life. Let’s start getting Nordic Minimalism and some Simplicity to your life. Tune in to my latest Nordic Mum Podcast and Blog for tips to get you started.
If you would like me to appear in your podcast, or you want to interview me feel free to contact me.
Yours,
Susanna Heiskanen
The Nordic Mum
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EPISODE 88 -
Shanti Hershenson - Young Author with 19 published books in 2 years of writing - Overcoming Bullying
Our youngest author guest to date!
Shanti Hershenson’s first two novellas were published when she was in the sixth grade, although her writing journey started long before then. Ever since she could hold a pencil, marker, or crayon, she was creating stories. They started from pictures, mere scribbles, and eventually, turned into captivating tales.
She lives in California with her parents, sister, and furry friends. Besides writing, she enjoys skateboarding, Beyblading, free-running, falconry, and of course, reading.
She writes in a variety of genres, including Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Historical Fiction, although she mostly sticks to Sci-Fi.
She advocates for anti-bullying, and you may find her at open mic-nights, performing her spoken word poem Needles & Thorns, which is about the struggle of bullying in middle schools.
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NATIONAL AUTHOR’S DAY | NOVEMBER 1
On November 1, millions of people celebrate authors and the books they write on National Author’s Day.
#NationalAuthorsDay
Books have a mind of their own. They take time to develop, research, draft, edit, revise and rewrite. We devour stories. We indulge in them as we drift off to sleep or travel. And sometimes, we allow them to collect dust on several flat surfaces in our homes. Those stories may take years to reach a publisher and just as long to reach a bookshelf. We may have only one favorite author or many collected works with which we cannot part. Whether we prefer fiction, non-fiction, or a mix of both, authors have been telling stories to fill our heads for thousands of years.
Authors also keep a record of history through their stories. They mark time through their observations. Their tales create remarkable memories of a place, sealing it between the pages of the binding. Their books allow us to keep coming back to visit again and again.
After her grandmother’s death in 1968, Sue Cole promoted the observance of National Authors Day. She urged people to write a note to their favorite author on November 1, to “brighten up the sometimes lonely business of being a writer.” She also suggested flying the American flag as another way of showing appreciation for the writers who have created American literature.
HOW TO OBSERVE NATIONAL AUTHOR’S DAY
Purchase some books by your favorite author to support them. Share your favorite novels online while encouraging an aspiring author. Use #NationalAuthorsDay to post on social media.
NATIONAL AUTHOR’S DAY HISTORY
In 1928, Nellie Verne Burt McPherson, president of the Bement, Illinois Women’s Club, had an idea of setting aside a day to celebrate American authors. McPherson was a teacher, and throughout her life, an avid reader. While she was recuperating in the hospital during World War I, she wrote a fan letter to fiction writer, Irving Bacheller. She told him how much she enjoyed reading his story Eben Holden’s Last Day A’ Fishin.
Upon receiving her letter, Bacheller sent her an autographed copy of another story. It was then that McPherson realized she would never be able to thank him adequately for his gift. McPherson decided to show her appreciation by submitting an idea for a National Author’s Day to the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. In May of 1929, the club endorsed a resolution for National Author’s Day to be observed honoring American writers. The United States Department of Commerce recognized this day in 1949.
Author FAQ
Q. Do I have to be published to be considered an author?
A. No. If you created an original article, poem, story, or other written work, you are an author.
Q. How do I show appreciation to my favorite author?
A. First, read the author’s books. But you’re already doing that. You should also share the books with others. Other ways to support an author is by:
- Writing a review on their author page where the book is sold.
- Reading the author’s older works.
- Following them on their social media.
Q. How are books organized in a library?
A. Most libraries use either the Library of Congress Classification System or the Dewey Decimal System. Books are first classifie
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Hey, just wrapping up October 2022 - Happy Fall Ya'll!! As the leaves turn and the temp drops here in Canada, we are focused in on creating even more great episodes featuring the best Authors... ever!
Episode 100 has already been recorded and it is available along with the most recent recordings on our YouTube Channel - head over there and skip the line! Our Podcast Hosting Site has limits as to how many episodes we can release per month, we are catching up, but you don't have to wait - head over to YouTube Today - be sure to share and follow so you don't miss what is coming!
We have a great list of world-wide listeners - thanks for tuning in around the world! We appreciate every one of you!
Update For October 2022 - Stats and More of What is To Come
We got some reviews to share! Thanks for leaving us your comments!
___ Calling All Authors...If you are an author or aspiring author, this is a great podcast for you! Dave is a warm and welcoming host who fosters interesting converations with his guests. Sometimes it's about the writing process, the subject of the book, or a relevant topic for authors. I recommend subscribing!
Aug. 22, 2022 on Apple Podcasts
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Great guests
July 17, 2022 on Podchaser
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Great listen, great host!
If you’re looking for inspiration on book writing, and generally for living the next chapter of your life, this podcast is a must listen. David is a fantastic host who genuinely cares about helping others succeed and engaging in interesting and engaging conversations with a variety of people from a variety of backgrounds.
June 20, 2022 on Apple Podcasts
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Great showAs a guest on Dave’s podcast, I enjoyed his easy going approach and style! I bet David is going to kill it in podcasting! Harry Spaight
Feb. 25, 2022 on Apple Podcasts
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EPISODE 87 -
Our Guest: Ann Kief and her husband live in Santa Rosa Beach, FL. Her professional life was mainly focused on education, leadership and college administration. She taught at the university, college and grade school levels as well as in numerous parks and recreation settings. She has written professionally, as well as dabbled in writing children’s literature. She and her husband have also enjoyed pursuing their entrepreneurial interests in several businesses. Her greatest joy and fulfillment, however, has been as a wife, mother and grandmother.
The Book: Blessed by Adoption - readers will find a true story about a German girl who was born a baroness, adopted by Americans, and later became a “princess.” While searching for biological roots, surprises unfolded, miracles happened, and patterns developed that revealed a common life thread.
Kief believes this is an inspirational book of amazing occurrences along the journey of discovery blending families and countries. “Whether adopted or not, readers will be drawn into the twists and turns of the thought processes, relationships, and research,” says Kief.
Much news today is about anti-Christian sentiment, abortions, immigration, citizenship, and German-American relationships. Kief’s true story gives a historical and relational perspective of those issues in her life and how it affects her beliefs today.
Ann Kief lived half of her childhood in Germany and the other half in Northern Virginia. She has a BS from Southern Illinois University and MS from Indiana University. She has written professional articles and co-authored a nationally distributed professional management aid book.
https://blessedbyadoption.com/
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EPISODE 86 -
Sheldon Identifies as being a person with a disability that isn’t a disability. He says he has “dis” – ability to overcome obstacles and challenges. He is merb’y, and a choir member of stella’s circle inclusion choir.
Sheldon is active as a professional speaker and is an advocate of equal rights for all persons with disabilities. Through his talking, he helps anyone out there looking for inspiration to set and achieve their goals.
The Book: KEEP on WALKING – A Transformative & Inspirational Journey
This book is a transformational and inspirational journey that shows you how to overcome obstacles and strive forward.
Do you remember a time when you hit rock bottom? Are you familiar with the feeling of being an outsider, falling into the depths of darkness, and losing your passion for life?
KEEP on WALKING, Sheldon Crocker’s personal story of grit and determination is designed to encourage other individuals to do the same. Crocker shows how one can cope with traumas and overcome obstacles by answering life’s battle cry.
Sheldon saw himself as broken and damaged because of his physical disability. You will be guided through Sheldon’s experience through his years living with a disability, learning what became his inner light and how he began to heal. Come upon the path that he took to reject the “disabled boy” label, discover his passion and purpose, and begin a restorative and transformative journey.
There is a message here about how we can rise from the ashes and walk into wholeness and freedom.
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Our Empty Nest and Doing Life With Your Adult Children
Jen and I are now in the empty nest stage - we are surrounded with all the stuff that our kids played with, treasured, wore and enjoyed - we are also surrounded by a haunting silence and emptiness - a quiet home devoid of chaos, friends of our kids everywhere, appointments, after school activities, go there, do this be here stuff that filled our lives with a hectic busyness and a sense of parental obligation. We had everyone under one roof and it felt good. This is a time of life that we anticipated would come some day.
For me as a Dad I sensed this empty nest state would equate freedom, my wife Jen has a different take on this - everything and everyone revolved around Jen with the kids here - she knew her role in all of our lives (mine included) now that keep the plates spinning season is over, and it feels strange.
I heard our guest on another podcast and he was talking to our situation - he had such wisdom and a heart for what we are living and I had to have him on - and to my great surprise and delight he said, yes!
Please join me in welcoming Jim Burns to our podcast!
Jim Burns is the president of HomeWord. He speaks to thousands of people around the world each year. He has more than 2 million resources in print in 20 languages. He primarily writes and speaks on the values of HomeWord, which are: Strong Marriages, Confident Parents, Empowered Kids, and Healthy Leaders. Some of his most popular books are: Doing Life With Your Adult Children, The Purity Code, Creating an Intimate Marriage, Have Serious Fun, Doing Life with Your Adult Children, and Finding Joy in the Empty Nest. Jim and his wife, Cathy, live in Southern California and have three grown daughters, Christy, Rebecca, and Heidi; three sons-in-law, Steve, Andy and Matt; and three grandchildren, James, Charlotte and Huxley.
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Books
- Doing Life with Your Adult Children: Keep Your Mouth Shut and the Welcome Mat Out- Finding Joy in the Empty Nest: Discover Purpose and Passion in the Next Phase of Life Paperback
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EPISODE 84 -
We get the best legal advice yet from James Voigt - what kind of advice? How about how to give your 2 weeks notice before going solo - how to build something before you quit your job. By investing in yourself and growing who you are, you can gain clarity as to your next step in your career and in your life!
Author of Going Solo - Leveling the Playing Field in Professional Services
That nagging voice in your head is probably right.
I am not on a crusade to convince everyone to go solo. My crusade is to reach those who want to go solo but are afraid to try to pull it off.
Jim Voigt had had the spirit of a solo professional from a young age, starting his first business "Corporate Start-Ups" at the age of 14. After a successful career in sales, Jim turned to law and put his sales skills to work building a strong book of business. But traditional employment never "clicked" and Jim longed for more freedom both financially and personally. His transition to solo practice went well, but he saw other solo professionals struggle. He wanted to help.
Going Solo is the result of his research into the struggles and successes of his own career and those professionals he met along his journey. Jim now brings his practical message of the attainability of solo freedom to others who feel trapped in traditional firms or underperforming solo practices.
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Our Guest: TRAVIS DAVIS - Travis Davis Author of Flames of Deception - A Fictional look at the potential for World War Three
An Air Force Brat that grew up in Arkansas, Spain, New York, and California. He joined the US Army at 17 years old as an Armored Reconnaissance Specialist and was stationed in the various forts in the United States and in Germany where he met his beautiful wife. During his three tours in Germany, he conducted hundreds of border patrols along the East-West German border and Czechoslovakia West German border. Where he saw first-hand communism and its oppression of its citizens. He retired from the US Army where his last duty assignment was Assistant Operations Sergeant of 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment; Fort Polk Louisiana he is a lifetime member of the Sergeant Morales Club and received multiple awards including the Meritorious Service Medal.
He currently works for a cyber security company as a Director Technical Solutions Specialist and has held positions of leadership in multiple leading software companies and has spoken at technology conferences in the US and Europe. He was the Technical Editor for Que Publishing for their Microsoft MCSE series and contributing author for the Windows 2000 Handbook. Travis is the co-founder of Point N Time Software and the inventor of Meeting Mapper and Strategy Mapper.
While not writing or working, Travis enjoys exercising, traveling (loves a good road trip), baking different loaves of bread, and just relaxing in his backyard with friends and family while having a cold beer. He currently lives in Allen Texas with his wife of 36 years, he has three adult children, two daughters living in Arkansas and one son living in Northern Virginia, and seven wonderful grandchildren.
“Travis never met a stranger,” is what his wife always says.
The Book: FLAMES OF DECEPTION
An imagery analyst at the National Geo-Spatial Agency (NGA) analyzing imagery of the oil fields in Western Siberia identifies strange behavior in the oil fields, his keen eye uncovers the best-kept secret in modern history. The potential for World War III is real, can it be stopped?
Web: https://randomthoughts.llc/
Author Page Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/~/e/B0B7PRVKZG
Twitter: @realTWDavis
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/realtwdavis
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/5zjM4qFjsQsJA2Ivmfwljm
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EPISODE 82 -
Our Guest: William R. Douglas is a first-time novelist. After obtaining a Journalism Degree in 1980, his career took a turn down the road of Information Technology. In the IT Field, he was still able to enjoy writing, no matter if it was technical documentation, newsletters or other material. He lives in the small town of McHenry, Illinois, with his wife Laurie and cat Peaches. They enjoy spending time with 6 kids and 8 grandkids and are very active in their local church.
The Book: THE DEATH AND RESURRECTION OF BASEBALL: ECHOES FROM A DISTANT PAST
In the year 2166, a post Second Civil War America is finally back on its feet. Among the countless personal and cultural casualties of the war, the sport of baseball has been dead for over a hundred years. 12-year-old Joe Scott lives in the northern Illinois city of McHenry and goes exploring in the woods one day in a no man's land that a hundred years earlier was the site of the bloodiest battle of the war. While there, he discovers a relic from the distant past, from before the war. It sparks a search for its meaning. Little does he know that the wheels of Providence have been unwittingly set in motion which leads to a stunning discovery in Dyersville, Iowa.
This second discovery has a direct connection with the relic found in McHenry. As events unfold, Joe finds himself at the center of the rediscovery of a sport long lost and forgotten by the ravages of time and war. With no living person having any first-hand knowledge of the game, can he figure out the pieces of the puzzle to resurrect the game of baseball? Will his friends take to the game? What will the adults think?
Soon, the answers begin to unfold, and a magical sequence of events leads to an epic finale on a national stage.
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Liesel K Hill is a novelist who writes across three genres. Her scifi and fantasy, including dystopian, are written under her full name, Liesel K. Hill. She writes crime fiction under her initials, L.K. Hill. Her historical romance is written under the pen name K.L. Conger.
She comes from a large, tight-knit family and resides in Northern Utah. She loved to read and write at a young age, and her earliest memories consist of her father sitting in the doorway of her room at night, relating stories of Frodo, Gandalf, and the One Ring. Her mother also read to her every afternoon as a child, sometimes for several hours a day.
Today she is an award-winning author. She plans to keep writing until they nail her coffin shut. Or the Second Coming happens. Whichever comes first
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Meet Dr. Amanda Helman; Known as… the Cognitive Release Coach, Healthy Family Connector, Author, Mindset Coach, and Mental Health Motivator
Amanda Helman, Ph.D. is an international speaker in the field of education, mental health, and leadership. Her passion is to empower women, men, and teens to nagivate affect in order to release their cognitive skills in healthy ways in business, relationships, and vision for the future.
She is currently the author of I Am Worthy, Valued, and Loved, a children’s book that empowers children to know they are valuable even when they make mistakes. This book has reviews by children and incorporates activities throughout and following the book reading. She is also the author of another book set to be published in summer 2021 called Silent No Longer: Finding My Voice After Complex Trauma that shares her personal stories of navigating complex trauma, limiting beliefs, and how to deeply heal following painful life events.
Amanda founded Healthy Roots LLC that centers on providing helpful tools and techniques to cultivate healthy family connections to impact communities. She is the founder of the annual Healthy Family Connections International Summit. This summit empowers families and community members to effectively communicate with each other.
Amanda also has 22 years of experience working with students with and without disabilities. Currently, Amanda is an adjunct professor at Lehigh University teaching coursework in special education to graduate students. She is also an education consultant in the areas of academic interventions, behavior, inclusive practices, trauma, and works with teams to support students with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Amanda has published peer-reviewed articles in the area of reading interventions and has presented at several national and international conferences about empowering students with ASD amongst other disabilities in the area of post secondary education, student-led IEPs, inclusive practices, vocabulary development, and curriculum development.
Book: I am Worthy, Loved, and Valued
This children's book provides a universal message to all children to know they are loved, worthy, and valued. The illustrations capture funny images that show children that no matter what they do they are not defined by their mistakes. Rather, they are encouraged to feel loved, worthy, and valued at all times.
Podcast: An Apple A Day With Dr. Amanda - The purpose of this podcast to empower people to share their stories in the areas of education, leadership, and mental health. Every week, Dr. Amanda interviews a guest or shares information on a weekly theme. There are a variety of topics that focus on growth mindset across areas. (https://anchor.fm/amanda-helman)
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Dr. Orlena Kerek - Pediatric doctor turned family health advocate and author - I'm going to show you how to make healthy living fun and easy so you can lose weight, get more energy and love your amazing life. I help ambitious mums have bucket loads of energy and overcome the frustration of not losing weight by teaching them to eat and be healthy, to look after themselves and feel fit and fabulous.
I'm so glad you're here. Believe me, with 4 kids I know how crazy life can get. Your kids, your husband, the laundry, the dishes. Everything seems to come before you.
I’m here to tell you it doesn't have to be that way.
I'm here to show you it can be easy to lead a healthy life, wake up every morning full of energy and ready to take on the day!
And if weight is an issue for you, I'll show you how to ditch the yo-yo dieting and enjoy a healthy relationship with delicious, tasty and healthy food.
I worked as a doctor in the UK. It broke my heart to see so many sick people in hospital dying of “lifestyle disease” that could have been prevented with a healthy lifestyle.
Later on I started my training in pediatrics. I saw so many children coming into my clinic with tummy ache because they were constipated and not eating a healthy diet.
This opened my eyes to the fact that children develop eating and lifestyle habits at an early age. Once I became a mother myself I also realized how difficult it can be to help our kids develop healthy eating habits (but also how easy it is with an easy system that I’ve now developed.)
I moved to Spain in 2011 because I wanted to lead my “ideal life”. I moved away from clinical practice to helping families establish healthy habits. What I love is seeing changes in families and knowing that I’m helping people lead long healthy lives and avoid all those nasty lifestyle illnesses such as diabetes, heart disease and even some cancers.
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EPISODE 78 -
Christine Smart is an Author who literally found her book!
Christine Smart is an English teacher who loves music and helping children understand that there is power in using their gifts. She was lauded as Texas’s 2022 Teacher of the Year.
“The Rings That Sing is an inspiring story allowing children to dream big and reach for the stars! Knowing that their greatest gifts lie within, they just need to believe in themselves and do their best!”
Written years ago, Christine and her family found her writings digging through memories and boxes!
Inspired by a love of music and the violin, The Rings that Sing shares the story of spirited Jemma as she receives a violin from her parents. Equal parts excited and disappointed that she can't play it, Jemma awakens in the middle of the night to a curious new friend who takes her on a magical adventure. Will Jemma learn to embrace her inner gifts and make the violin sing?
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Hi, I’m Candace Sanchez. My Mottos are Dream Big, You Can Accomplish Anything, Treat Others the way you want to be treated and Everything Happens for a reason; with faith, hope and perseverance, YOU are more than capable to BE the BEST version of YOURSELF!
My Story
I know firsthand the importance of life coaching. In 2014, I was at a crossroads. I had just completed my Master’s degree, I held a secure IT Director role; however, I felt as if something was missing. Although I had accomplished my educational goals, I felt as if my professional goals and career was at a standstill.
Additionally in my personal life, I was experiencing the empty nest syndrome. I did not understand how all these changes in my life were affecting me. I was not sure how to manage my feelings or if they were warranted. All I knew was that I wanted to work on myself, embrace the life changes and decided to INVEST in MYSELF.
I took ACTION! I consulted with and hired a life coach. That experience forever changed my perspective and outlook on what I am capable of achieving! Now it is my time to be that LIFE COACH so that I can HELP OTHERS
The Podcast: Welcome to Unspoken: Conversations with Candace
Where we talk openly about “taboo” topics in order to spark difficult and uncomfortable conversations. Where we allow a safe place for anyone who has had trauma to be heard.
Unspoken: Conversations with Candace is about speaking your truth and using your voice because YOU MATTER!
Each episode will feature a guest who will talk candidly about their personal journey that will give you the feeling of HOPE, that no matter what you are going through, no matter how difficult it can be to talk about, YOU are NOT ALONE and there are plenty of resources to help.
We are all about healing, encouragement, and support. And with that in mind, trust that there is POWER in speaking your truth and sharing your experiences with others because you can change and save someone’s life.
The Book: Unspoken
Nonfiction – Biography & Autobiography – Women
Candace Sanchez is a successful adult, who rose from the ashes of a troubled youth. Despite wonderful family elements, there was a dark side to her childhood. Candace now shares her story of transformation and resilience that allowed her to find happiness in her family, career, and most importantly, within herself.
Her story proves that your past does not define who you are or who you are destined to become. Candace’s testimony is powerful and impactful, and it will open your eyes to see child abuse with a new lens.
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Our guest today is Alison Tedford is an author, consultant and a mom. I’m Indigenous (Kwakiutl First Nation) and based in Abbotsford, BC. I have over a decade of government experience contributing to culturally sensitive data storytelling, policy analysis and program development and seven years of private sector experience creating information products that educate, inform and delight.
I’ve helped entrepreneurs, governments and brand leaders design their visions of inclusion, strategize about how to get there with practical, concrete action and find the words to talk about it. I create an inviting space where questions are encouraged and welcome and that allows for growth and experimentation.
Doing Good and Telling Better Stories
I take an intersectional approach and collaborate with non-profits and businesses that honour that Black, Trans and Indigenous Lives Matter, that disability access is a right not a privilege and that further the equality of women. I believe in creating an affinity based on shared values to create a committed community instead of driving action through fear, pity and shame.
The Right Words At The Right Time
I believe in telling stories that centre the strength of communities that are served, sharing perspectives respectfully, through consent-based practices and in a way that’s culturally sensitive. The best way we can respect our partners, the people who benefit from social impact work, is to share about these collaborations in a way that is anti-exploitative, does not centre narratives of saviorism and protects the dignity of all involved.
Ethical impact storytelling allows impact-driven leaders to demonstrate stewardship of resources, keep donors and consumers informed of the impact of their dollars to drive retention, maintain trust and invite their audience to join in and get involved with what matters most to them.
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Today we welcome our very first screen writer and director, Lauren Barker!
Lauren Barker wrote and directed her first feature film, Cohabitation, on a micro budget in Milwaukee, WI. The thriller had a successful worldwide festival run and won the award for Best Actress in a Feature Film (for Tiffany Streng) at the Milwaukee Twisted Dreams Film Festival. The movie got distributed by Indie Rights and is available to stream on Amazon, Google Play, Tubi TV, and YouTube. Barker’s other writing & directing work includes the short films Smile, Baby and Return to Me.
Lauren Barker told her parents that she wanted to be a screenwriter when she was 14, which naturally thrilled them. While they gently encouraged her to consider other possibilities, exploring different career paths was never an option for Lauren. The pull to tell visual stories was anchored in her soul.
Barker explored all kinds of writing at Winona State University, where she earned her Bachelor’s in English and began to dabble in theatre along the way. She went on to study screenwriting at Vancouver Film School, graduating with honors in August of 2014.
While at VFS, Barker wrote numerous projects including feature films, TV specs, short films, and comedy sketches. She also wrote and directed her first short film Smile, Baby in Vancouver.
After returning to her home state of Wisconsin, Barker made another short film, Return to Me, and then started working as a production assistant to fully immerse herself in the film world and learn as much as she could about all aspects of production.
In 2018, she founded her production company, Green Rabbit Pictures, and directed her first feature film, Cohabitation. That same year, Barker began working as an assistant camera in order to further expand her experience as a filmmaker.
Barker writes almost every day and continuously works to hone her many skills in order to be useful on any film set. She is always looking to expand her knowledge and connections and relishes the chance to work in a new medium or genre.
Since 2017, Barker has worked as a mentor for Friends in Film, sharing her experience and giving advice to aspiring filmmakers on breaking into the business.
At different points in her life, Barker has also been a yoga instructor, a professional tea connoisseur, and a collegiate bowler.
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Reneau Peurifoy is an internationally known author, therapist, and teacher. Over his four-decade career he has written books that have been translated into multiple languages. He has also appeared on numerous radio and television programs as well as on many podcasts. The Anxiety Disorders Association of America (ADAA), the nation’s primary organization for anxiety-related problems, has invited him to speak at eleven of their national conferences.
Peurifoy’s ability to reduce complex ideas into simple, easy-to-understand terms and apply them to daily life can be seen in his books that have been translated into multiple languages. It’s also the reason he has been invited on numerous radio and television programs as well as multiple podcasts. One of the forces that drives his work is his desire to provide people with tools that can help them live happier and more productive lives.
Born and raised in California, Peurifoy received his master’s degree in counseling from the University of San Francisco and worked for twenty years as a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in anxiety disorders and trauma. It was during this time that he wrote his first book, Anxiety, Phobias & Panic: Taking Charge and Conquering Fear, that has now sold over 200,000 copies.
After publishing two more books that became known in multiple languages, Peurifoy retired from private practice to teach at a local college. He is now retired from teaching and has finished a new book, Why You Feel the Way You Do, that will be released in 2023. He is especially excited about this project as it has allowed him to research the new discoveries being made in affective neuroscience – the science that explores the biological circuits in the brain that generate emotions.
Peurifoy continues to live near the capitol of California. He is married and has two grown children. In his spare time, he enjoys playing guitar and gardening.
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Creating a space where the person with a disability can bloom and thrive.
Hello! My name Michelle Steiner and I have a Learning Disability My disability involves difficulties with math, visual perception, hand dexterity and executive functioning. I couldn’t have made it without help from God, and the support of family and friends.
Having a Learning Disability doesn’t stop me from doing most of the things I want to do. I just need to find a different way to do them.
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Our Guest: Christine O’Brien Horstman is a life and career coach and a professional development instructor. Her specialty is emotional intelligence and communication skills. She is an expert in the DISC model of human behavior and personality strengths. As a mother and a chronic illness warrior, she knows how hard it can be to take care of yourself and your family when life gets tough. Coping with cancer and one health crisis after another equipped her with a toolbox that she shares with others facing their own times of stress. The self-advocacy skills she learned as a patient enabled her to be the advocate her son needed when he was diagnosed with learning differences and experienced his own health issues.
Book - Deal with It, Doll!: Coaching Yourself Through Crisis
We could not have imagined with our clever ‘2020 vision’ slogans at the start of the new year that we would get a collective punch to the gut come spring. You may be going along
We could not have imagined with our clever ‘2020 vision’ slogans at the start of the new year that we would get a collective punch to the gut come spring. You may be going along swimmingly in life and out of nowhere face your own crisis. You may have already had more challenges than seem fair for one person to endure. Whether you are still trying to process the pandemic or dealing with a crisis of your own creation, Deal with It, Doll! Coaching Yourself Through Crisis will leave you feeling less alone and so much stronger.
Our collective health crisis inspired this book, but it’s built for the most common curveballs. The stuff many of us face personally and professionally in any given year. The changes most of us will deal with in our lifetimes. Parenting. Careers. Finances. Handling failures and fractures and managing our relationships. Health problems. All of it.
Through each new phase in life, we have the opportunity to grow through change. When the literal and figurative masks come off, who are you, Doll? Who do you want to be and how are you going to make the most of your life, especially when things aren’t going your way?
Your struggles, your shifts, your changes, and your challenges are creating the next version of your life in ways that may not yet make sense. Do not despair. Life is ever-changing and full of twists and turns.
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Victoria J. Hyla (Victoria Hyla Maldonado) is a Chicagoland native who has been writing all her life. She works as a freelance writer and editor as well as an editor for Think Ahead Kids, a new publishing company for great children's books. She also has worked as a high school English and English Language Learner teacher, middle school French teacher, and director of several theatrical productions .
ROMANCE
Victoria’s published works include the Hearts Drawn Wyld trilogy. Book 1: In Death We Part, Book 2: Running in the Mists, and Book 3: Awake in Elysian Fields
CHILDREN’S
Victoria also is the author of the children's book Bartleby the Brave (and its Spanish translation Miedosin el Valiente), Tears for the Butterfly, Monstery Donstery Dock, and Tempest the Turtle.
SHORT STORIES
Victoria has been dabbling in the art of short stories and has several out and several more to come. "The Bridge," is available in the Young Crush anthology. "A Stitch in Time" is available in the Storybook Pub 2 anthology. "Resonance" is available in the Tricks, Treats, and Teasers anthology. Victoria's gothic horror romance story "Cursed" is available in a horror anthology called The Nightmare Collective, Part 2. Foxtales 10, a multigenre anthology of local writers features four of her stories that range from family drama ("Apparent") to crime suspense ("In Memoriam") to post-apocalyptic ("Deserted"). Plus, "Navidad Nights," a Mexican-themed short story is available in the Christmas romance anthology Caught Under the Mistletoe, and "Beyond Existing" is now available for a short time in the single parent collection Gaining Ground.
POETRY
Victoria also is the editor, compiler, organizer, and introduction writer for The Evidence I Have Lived: The Complete Writings of Lisa F. Gullo.
NONFICTION
Victoria also contributed a short nonfiction personal essay to the book Life as a Woman by Romelia Lungu and an essay called The Evidence of a Life to a multinational platform.
FOO DOG BLOG
Victoria also is the typist, compiler, chronicler, and executive assistant to Foo Dog and manages his affairs and blog at http://foodogblog.blogspot.com.
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Our guest today joins us from the UK - mixing Magic and Math, this UK Teacher makes learning magical!
English Language Teacher, Materials Writer and Public Speaker
Welcome to The Magic Classroom.
I am a teacher, magician and memory master. My favourite hobby at the moment is memorizing the digits of Pi then reciting them as I juggle. The plan is to get to 3141 digits in one month.
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A Living Podcast - Upcycled from the mind of Dave Campbell
Inspired by Natasha Bedingfield
The next chapter
like the blank page
is still unwritten
open your window
and let the sun shine in
because today
is when your book begins
and people are already listening in
from Italia, India and China
to amplify their acoustic
and linguistic
career
and hear
these people talking
about sentence construction, story line
and how in writing
hearts and minds align
Instagram: @Christoph_Weigert
Email: christoph@jinn-imagio.de
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More than 20 years ago, Kelly Kaur was a poet. But, as is usually the case with aspiring writers, she also got plenty of rejection. So much so that she eventually let her literary ambitions slide to the background. Life happened. She concentrated on family and her career at Mount Royal University, where she has been teaching in the English department.
Like Simran, Kaur left Singapore to avoid an arranged marriage. She attended the University of Calgary and experienced a similar fish-out-of-water culture shock when it came to life in Alberta. That included enduring the weather and some less-than-stellar romantic entanglements. Like her protagonist, she realized that a life of relative freedom is different than having your future mapped out by others, but in some ways, it’s far scarier and certainly just as complicated.
So how much is fiction and how much is memoir?
“That was the question that worried me as I was writing,” she says. “I would ponder and wonder if people would say ‘Is that your mom? Is that your sister? Is that your friend?’ I think as I started writing the story, what was true was the time frame. I had to write what I knew. So 1985 to 1988 was when I was a student. I could log into my memories and think of Coconut Joe’s or the Calgary Stampede or the Winter Olympics. I knew and remembered details. I loved that part, when I wrote from that point of view I could delve into what was real to me. The stories and the twists and turns, that’s where I could take creative license.”
It results in a funny, uniquely structured novel that alternates narrative points-of-view between four women. While the story may be rooted in the conflicting vagaries of a young woman’s life in Singapore and life in 1980s Calgary, Kaur says she hopes it represents a broader immigrant experience by exploring the isolation, shifting expectations and cultural differences experienced by newcomers everywhere.
The story of Kaur’s book has had its own twists and turns beyond the narrative. She recently learned that it will join her poem, A Singaporean’s Love Affair, on a trip to the moon. The poem and Letters to Singapore are among thousands of pieces of art from around the globe that have been collected by Toronto writer and physicist Samuel Peralta. The works will be digitized, placed in time capsules and blasted to the moon as part of the Lunar Codex. It is piggybacking on NASA’s Artemis program, which will be accepting commercial payloads such as the time capsules for trips to the moon to prepare for the Artemis Program, which aims to land humans back on the moon in 2025. Peralta, who chose art from 101 countries, liked Kaur’s poem about the immigrant experience and eventually agreed that her novel could go up as well.
“When the Griffin mission goes up to the moon, there’s going to be a NASA rover that is going up,” she said. “Peralta is also sending the books and the novels. They are going to go up on that same capsule at the same time. They stay up in the moon forever, these analogue/digital little batteries that will just be up there until someone finds them or not.”
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The Book: Exit to MorvanaEXIT TO MORVANA
Do the painful disappointments in life make you wonder “Where is the exit door on this planet? Consider the tale of over worked, lonely Samantha who one day meets a mysterious Alien while visiting a metaphysical book store.
She eventually engages in a romance with him. He offers to take her to Morvana, a planet in the Andromeda galaxy where the people have such long life spans they are virtually immortal. The Morvanian civilization has suffered through all the trials and tribulations that planet Earth has and overcome them.
This has resulted in a nearly perfect Utopian planet. The only catch is, Samantha must agree to leave Earth and everything she knows — forever. If you had such an opportunity, would you go?
What inspired you to write exit to morvana?
A: It started out as a book about our socioeconomic problems on this planet. But then I began to think that such a book would be both depressing and boring. This was 1997, and I had an hour and a half commute to and from the neighboring town I was working in. I had to pass by a lake where I had a UFO experience in 1989. I began to wonder what beings from another planet would think of us, and the way we treat one another. From then on I began making notes and characters in the story began to materialize.
What, if anything, did you learn when writing the book?
A: During the creation of the book I began to realize what was driving the story. It is my deepest wish that one day we will be Morvana. We will be the planet in this universe that finally made it, inspite of all the upheavals we’ve been through. We are at a crossroads in our history. We have all the potential to succeed, but it is up to us to chose the right path.
What does the title mean?
A: Exit to Morvana represents a journey to a utopian planet in another galaxy. Most of us in our own world of stress and horrors have had a moment of “where’s the exit door on this planet I want to get off”. The protagonist in the story, Samantha is given the chance to actually leave.
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About Ron Nussbaum
Ron is a Dynamic, results-oriented leader with over a decade of experience in winning. Conductor of change that never accepts the status quo or an excuse. Consistently, he strives for the best: the best outcomes, the best performance necessary to achieve the objective. "I constantly look to improve myself to help those around me" Ron focuses on coaching to perform at the highest level. Aiming for a championship should, and is, the goal--always. Training others to become experts at their craft is a true passion. Ron experiences in business, management and leadership lead him through his journey of book writing.
About the book - Buying For Exit: How to Buy and Sell a Business-Like a Pro on Your First Deal!
Are you looking to enter the world of business flipping?
Are you ready to start living the life you have dreamed?
Are you not afraid of rolling up you sleeves?
If yes is the answer, then you are holding a gold mine in the following pages I will explain how to buy, prepare for sale, and sell business’s just like you would flip a house. Without all the stress and risk of a house. There are more private sales of business’s happing in the world than ever before and millions of dollars are being made every day. This information is not meant to be read and then set back on the bookshelf. This book is for action and that is what will create the life you have dreamed of! I bookmark will not be need and your first or next deal is already waiting on you. Just follow the 5 must haves for every business purchase to be successful.
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Rebecca has long been a lover of stories and adventure. She started dictating short stories when she was three. Creating various scenarios was a frequent occurrence growing up, whether while playing by herself, with her siblings, or with her stuffed animals.
When she isn’t writing, she can usually be found spending time with family or roommates, participating in role-playing games or boffer sword-fighting with friends, taking a run, or enjoying the scenery in her native state of Utah.
Rebecca is a novelist with two novels that are published.
- Escape from Salmira is the first book of the Gemtouched Memoirs, available in paperback and ebook.
- Tawariell’s Tale is a serial novel with a new chapter published every Tuesday.
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Hi, I’m Chelsie! I’ll never forget when I was about ten years old and my grandmother looked at me one day and said, “child, you get everything that comes down this family line.”
What was she talking about?
Blood sugar issues, inability to pay attention, gas, bloating, constipation, and nausea after meals. My doctors labeled these symptoms as IBS, hypoglycemia, and ADD.
The older I got, the more diagnoses I received. In college, it was anxiety, depression, hypothyroidism, and then came the dreaded perimenopause at age 27.
This list kept growing year after year with no end in sight. My cry for help was LOUD! I tried everything I knew. I met with doctors and specialists and even hired functional medicine doctors to help. I filled my sack full of prescriptions each month, but I wasn’t getting well.
As a nurse, I realized that I was just like my patients – being told that medication and surgery was the way out. I was told I would have to live with it. That’s not an answer I was willing to accept.
One day it clicked. I thought, “what if there’s a better way?”
I began to study how food is medicine and how our bodies were created to heal themselves. I realized that when we give the body what it needs, it will give us what we want in return. I needed a strategic plan to help me heal, using what God provided.
It was challenging to find someone who would look at me as a whole person, from a mind-body-spirit approach. I don’t think I even realized that’s what I needed at the time. So I went on a mission to study everything I could to address these health challenges myself.
I was already a nurse with a degree in psychology. So I went on to study health from a natural perspective and was certified in functional medicine and functional diagnostic nutrition. I also studied the spiritual and emotional components through energy medicine and was ordained as a healing minister, using the power of prayer. This all-encompassing approach was life-changing for me personally.
I felt so much joy and energy some days that I could hardly contain myself. I had never had that in my 30 years prior.
I remember thinking, “this is how we all should feel all the time.” How could this simple approach to health be hiding from so many people?
It is my mission to make sure you gain an understanding of how to heal naturally, no matter how hopeless the situation may feel right now. I use the same approach I used in my own healing journey to guide people like you so you can experience this same joy for life.
I’m here to support others because I needlessly suffered for most of my life. I don’t want that for you. I understand you because I was once like you. I know you want your life back, and I want you to realize how simple it can be. Take action today to make your health a priority by completing my short application process to see if we’re a good fit. You were created to make a huge impact in this world, and you can’t do that if you don’t feel like it.
The Book: Healed His Way
God created your body with an amazing capacity to heal itself when you give it what it needs. Most Western medicine is focused on alleviating symptoms without addressing the root cause.
By cooperating with our body’s systems, providing proper nutrition and supplements, along with exercise and common sense, we can experience optimal health and wellness.
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Jason Galvez, Author of I Am Loved Right Where I Am joins us today!
More about our guest! Jason - Mr. Jay, shares on his website,
Have you ever felt lost, confused, unlovable, out-of-touch, angry, or on the verge of losing it all or yourself? Changing all this is as simple as picking up your phone.
It is said that the definition of insanity is doing something repeatedly the same way but expecting a different outcome. Is there an area in life you are unhappy with? Are there things in your life that you know you want and need to change but not sure where to start? Are you struggling in your relationship(s), your marriage, or single life?
Lord knows I’ve been there. All my life I saw all my friends thrive while I struggled every day just to survive. I was the product of divorce, raised in poverty (on some pretty rough streets) and thrown into special-ed for a minor speech impediment. At fourteen I moved out on my own and after years of therapy, tapping into my faith, self-examination, endless podcasts, books, hard work and determination found the true me and gained a whole new perspective on life.
FUN FACTS ABOUT Mr. Jay
I am very much a family man. When I am not coaching or public speaking, I love spending time with my family. I have a nine-year-old son and four-year-old daughter and they are my world. I love spending time with extended family. When I have time, I enjoy taking the family to our local zoo and – just between you and I -my guilty pleasures are watching Investigation Discovery and Animal Planet.
Thank you for giving me a few moments of your time. I want you to know you are unique, and worthy. Please check out, and subscribe to, my FREE Weekly dose of Vitamin Jay HERE ON MY YOUTUBE CHANNEL! If you are ready to start pursuing your journey to wholeness, drop me a line. I promise, I don’t bite.
FROM THE BOOK: Sylvia is a special girl who knows all about how family love comes in different colors, forms, types, and sizes. She has a lot of friends–each with a unique family makeup. Maybe your family has some things in common with that of Sylvia’s friends, or maybe yours is very different. No matter what type of family you come from, Sylvia wants you to know that is exactly where belong, and that you are LOVED.
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We talk all things parenting with our guest Kim Muench Author of Becoming Me While Raising You – a Mother's Journey to Her Self
Kim's mission is to help Moms unlock their inner wisdom so they can be the calm, confident guide their children deserve.
In May 2008, I went through the greatest parenting challenge of my life. The eldest of my five children called me from across the country to say he was in trouble…he was failing classes, about to lose his job, and his use of alcohol was totally out of control.
At the time he was twenty years old.
When I answered his call for help, I didn’t waste time wondering how it had happened or ask myself, “Why me?!” I knew the way I had parented him and was parenting, contributed to the life-threatening situation he was in and one that I could no longer deny.
During his spiral through the darkness, I worked with my son to help him find long term sobriety by supporting and encouraging him but never doing for him what he could do for himself. It wasn’t easy, all the while my energy and focus were on discovering and understanding where things between he and I, actually myself and all of my children, could be different/better/healthier/more connected.
I knew any change in our relationship started with me. And, to this day, it continues with me. So I began to educate myself on how the parent/child relationship really works, in tandem, I slowly made my own physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being a priority. That included parenting in a completely different light! Today my kids range from teen to married and my son is more than a decade sober.
In my journey to redefine my role as a mom who would guide, instead of trying to control my kid’s choices and behavior, one who would work hand-in-hand with them instead of trying to dominate the relationship, I was led to research dozens of parenting, self-discovery, and personal growth books and courses. My quest prompted me to return to college to finish a degree in psychology, and it led me to an internship where my greatest responsibility was supporting and encouraging other parents who had teens in outpatient addiction treatment. In addition, my path has led me to write a soon-to-be-published memoir about my experience as a mother with a child in the throes of addiction called Becoming Me While Raising You – A mother’s journey to her self.
Ultimately, my journey took me to a certification in parent coaching through the Jai Institute for Parenting because I believe the quality of the relationship between ourselves and our children is the essence of what it will take to create positive change in the world, not only during our lifetime but for future generations as well.
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What is a sit spot and how does it help nurture our relationship with the land? Developing this nature routine for yourself and your learners leads to so many possibilities for learning about our land and how we fit into it. Where is your sit spot?
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Our Guest:
Mike is an executive coach, a speaker and an author of the book: The Myth-Guided Mind: Unleash Your God-Given Genius at Work and at Home. His book is both practical and personal. He worked as a psychotherapist and saw that there were flaws in the system.
He came to believe that there was a problem about the way “the system” thinks about mental illness and mental health. Now he works as a coach to help people look forward to create the life they want to live and unleash their inner genius.
The Book: The Myth-Guided Mind: Unleash Your God-Given Genius at Work and at Home
In The Myth-Guided Mind, Michael Hynes delivers a powerful proposition: we are not nearly so broken as the devices we use to make us well. With a success rate of around 20 per cent, conventional therapy tactics turn us towards false answers and away from what we need most.
Hynes argues that healing techniques such as somatics, coupled with a reconnection to allegories that hide the keys to our happiness in plain sight, will lead us home. We need to access the same old stories to stop repeating our same old stories.
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Why I built this series
Tiffy Rose created a series of Addiction/Recovery books for the public in a time where the world faces addiction in staggering proportions, showing the cause and effect of abuse and trauma in early life creating in most cases addictive behavior. This series brings awareness and recovery solutions to those looking for understanding to change their lives. Helping them grow with determination and discipline, and the Self-Empowerment to embrace a new LIFE JOURNEY!
With over seventeen years (2019) in recovery, after twenty-five years in addiction Rose has championed her past in order to help others find their own Serenity in recovery.
I am a fierce advocate for recovery. I bring a lifetime of study experience to my research and writing, some of the most dramatic learning I received came from the ten years living on the streets in addiction. Though the last five years has given me a new look at this reality from the other side of the desk. Eighteen years in recovery (2020) Rose as my friends call me, I have completely built a life that I can be proud of; a business owner, homeowner, mother of a daughter and son, along with my five grandchildren. Life is dreams come true from the very dark reality that once was my world!
Addiction through the eyes of a recovering addict and the story it holds, I wrote The Big Trap… Just One Last High, never expecting to write additional work. I wrote this series, which has now turned into a new platform of Self-Driven Recovery for a problem that has been part of society for far too long. I began writing my own experience, strength and hopes not long after moving into my new home hoping to help those still suffering from addiction crisis and recovery stigma. My platform brings to the many that are falling behind but actually want help, the help they need.
My first book which was meant to bring an acute awareness of what the inevitable outlook into addiction is to those at-risk teens and young adults, in hopes of diverting them from years of struggle in addiction or the tragic reality of repairing their lives once they choose recovery.
By truly embracing and engaging the two-fold solution we can each and all achieve serenity in recovery, whether our own or a stranger searching for something to believe in again.
T. Rose
The Book: The Big Trap: Just One Last High
What happens when a hard working young Southern Belle climbing the corporate ladder at the forefront of the computer revolution gets trapped in the dark underworld of drugs, crime, and prostitution? This is a true story of Tiffy Rose Baker's long journey from the hot west Texas plains and Sunday Church picnics to the executive boardroom and the shimmering nightlife of South Florida. Follow her as she boards the bus fleeing abuse and alienation in the dusty ranch country in pursuit of shattering the glass ceiling in a male dominated business world. Dedication and hard work propel her up but naivety and misplaced trust lead her into a darkness from which any escape may be fatal. The Big Trap is a tense and thought provoking examination of the secretive world of drugs and vice, and the high price success can extract from the unsuspecting. The Big Trap... Just one last High is the voice of one but the story of many.
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Thanks for joining us for another great interview with a writer that helps other authors share their message!
About Cori Wamsley
Multi-bestselling author Cori Wamsley knows how to tell a good story. And she know how to blend it with your journey to create a beautiful brand asset that gets you to bestseller and helps you reach all your big dreams.
She has been doing that with her book The SPARK Method: How to Write a Book for Your Business Fast and her unique coaching programs that empower people to get their message heard on a bigger scale for six years.
Before starting Aurora Corialis Publishing, Cori was a writing coach and book editor for nonfiction. She has 18 years’ experience as a professional writer and editor, including 10 years with the U.S. Department of Energy and U.S. Department of Justice and 4 years as the executive editor of Inspiring Lives Magazine.
Cori has also written seven fiction books and contributed to two nonfiction anthologies, which helped her see the struggles that new authors go through with story development and publishing, especially when they are trying to run a brand full-time. Cori is an Executive Contributor for Brainz Magazine, sharing about writing and publishing. She hold a master’s and bachelor’s in English literature (and a random bachelor’s in biology). She loves quiet, everything about ocean waves, the smell of yummies baking, fashion, and good conversation and stories.
Recently, she launched her newest fiction book, Braving the Shore, about two sisters who get together to celebrate their 35th birthday when their world is upended by an accident. The story follows Chelsea as she recovers from memory loss resulting from the accident and struggles to figure out her path in life . . . and whether she wants to stay on the one she was already on.
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In The SPARK Method: How to Write a Book for Your Business Fast, Cori details every step of the writing process, from planning through writing through figuring out the title and cover. She makes a nebulous process incredibly easy for anyone to implement. Even if you have tons of ideas. Even if you lack direction. Even if you don't even know what an ISBN is . . . The SPARK Method can help you get through the writing process so you, too, can finally have a book to represent you, your ideas, your brand, and your story. Bonus downloads from Cori's website enrich the process, giving added value to this fantastic book. Buy this book, and get started on one amazing evergreen marketing tool that will help you make a bigger impact than ever before!
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Today on Living The Next Chapter, we speak with Jonathan R Rose - Published Author of Carrion, The Spirit of Laughter, Wedlock and Gato y Lobo.
Jonathan Rose grew up in Toronto - a neighbourhood filled with the sights and sounds of many cultures, different voices, traditions and faces. Seeing many different cultures every day became Jonathan's super power. Jonathan set out to not just see the world, but live the world. As he travels and transplants himself he finds inspiration in the stories lived in front of him every day. Take a journey with us, an author journey with a purpose!
The ability to tell a story in a clear and concise manner that anybody can understand has always been my strength and my passion.
When I’m not writing I’m usually reading a new story, watching a new story, or walking around observing the world around me while putting together a new story in my mind. Like a mathematician thinks in numbers, an athlete thinks in physical movements, and a musician thinks in notes and verses, I think in story.
I will always enjoy the thrill of invention and the freedom of exploration that comes with writing fiction, but since 2019 I have also developed a passion for creating compelling narratives based on actual events, and I have found telling true stories as faithfully as possible to be as rewarding as it is challenging.
An avid traveler since I was 18, I have been to dozens of countries that have exposed me to an array of perspectives from a variety of people. Travel is an addiction, so when I’m not somewhere else I’m almost always thinking about being somewhere else, and it’s those travels that have led to the creation of the books, Carrion, The Spirit of Laughter, Wedlock and my first Spanish language novel, Gato y Lobo.
In addition to creative storytelling, I have been writing copy with a focus on SEO for various clients in the food and beverage and travel industries since 2017.
Since 2020 I have prepared dozens of Humanitarian and Compassionate Applications for Canadian refugees in hopes of preventing their deportation and securing their permanent residency. This work is incredibly rewarding because it enables me to understand and absorb real stories by the people who have lived every word, stories that I then get to interpret and rewrite as compellingly and empathetically as my abilities permit, all for the purpose of helping the people who shared those stories with me attain what they have worked so hard to get. If that doesn't illustrate the power of storytelling then I don't know what to tell you.
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Ashley Holmes is a Holistic Fertility Coach, who uses yoga and meditation as the cornerstones of her program.
It turns out that stress, along with a disconnect from self and spirit, can cause a lot of problems for women trying to get pregnant.
Ashley helped herself through infertility, and has a lovely child to show for that. Her story will inspire you!
Join in as we speak with Ashley about how a Holistic Living approach can help women with infertility, as well as all women, live their best lives.
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E54 - Sal La Greca and Mike Mannix Authors of The 5 L's - Unparalled Performance
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A truly unique guest on this episode! Mike James is here to share his writing process, his amazing personal story and how the power of words can change a life!
Mike combines story telling with sounds and music, building a world for audible listeners to immerse themselves into the story.
Mike graciously shares a sample story with us called "Just"
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E52 - Ely Jackson - Actor and Now Author of The Aegean Series - Snake of the Nile
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About our guest - The world needs to hear your message.
Bridget Sicsko helps 6 & 7 figure female business owners, CEOS, entrepreneurs & organizations write best-selling books, craft their brand story, sell out their programs and master their messaging.
Bridget can help you get present, channel your message and confidently articulate your story to gain global recognition.
Bridget is the founder of Exalted Publishing House, a Podcast Host, Dog Mom, Kundalini Yoga Teacher and a Visibility Coach.
I had a massive awakening during my teen years when I was healing from Lymes Disease. I went to doctor after doctor and felt like I wasn't being "heard" as I started to connect the dots of how all aspects of our body are inter-related.
I made it my mission to make sure that no one else ever feels not seen or heard as they share their truth.
I work with female entrepreneurs, leaders and large-scale organizations to produce books that represent truth and sharing powerful stories. We work with a focus on story-telling, visibility and getting media coverage.
As a yogi and someone who is fascinated with the study of SOUND, I firmly believe in the power of words, stories and voices to shift the way we view reality, our potential and our purpose on the planet.
In addition, my focus is on community. I like to call myself a master community builder as I have gathered hundreds of female leaders in my online community, mastermind program, networking events & women's circles.
My love child is my podcast called She Builds Empires where I get to have earth-shattering conversations with 6, 7, & 8 figure women business owners to hear their story and who they are beyond the empire.
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I am Sara and I am an Intuitive Health & Life Coach, Spiritual Mentor & Healer.
I help women like you lose weight naturally by teaching easy and delicious recipes, giving you the tools and techniques right for your body type from one of the most ancient sciences of all time-Ayurveda- and teaching you the exact steps I took to free myself from physical and emotional pain.
I am originally from Italy and I have been living on the Central Coast California since 2014.
I love traveling and seeing new places -I love adventures and if you are a Sagittarius or know one, then you understand! - Following the wind… that is how I ended it up over here, far away from home. Don’t get me wrong, I speak in Italian to my son every day, love my culture, miss my family, friends, and country, but I am happy where life took me.
Look at me now, living the California Dream! Never thought to end it up here but California captures me with its beautiful diversity of culture and innovation open-mindedness.
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ME
I am inspired to live a holistic lifestyle for myself and my family...always searching new natural herbal remedies, reading about plants, plant- based food recipes and how to nurture the mind, body, and spirit.
I believe Mother Nature provides us with everything we need to live a healthy lifestyle and believe we all have the power to heal ourselves.
I live following the rules of Ayurveda according to my body type. In my blog, I share some recipes that I use for me and my family. I make my own ointments and body butters and you will find some of that as well.
When I am not spending time with my kids and husband, working with clients or on my blog, you will find me hiking in nature, painting or playing guitar.
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Unhealed wounds, a thirst for unavailable men, and years of seeking salvation in temporary homes found twenty-one-year-old Kristin on the doorstep of a decades-older sugar daddy. She thought her life was finally about to begin.
But dating Bradley was not the fairytale she expected.
When Kristin’s dangerous binge of sex, substances, and scandal landed her in a detective’s office, she didn’t suspect that the toughest questions would be the honest ones she had to start asking herself.
Sex, Drugs & Soul is the true story of one woman’s healing quest to discover grace within the shadow side of her psyche and behaviors. Forced to come face-to-face with her tendencies toward people-pleasing and self-abandonment amidst grief and abuse, Kristin finally realized what she had truly been missing—herself.
Kristin Birdwell is no stranger to pain and chaos. After experiencing the death of her father, psychological and sexual abuse, and the loss of loved ones to prison, suicide, and addiction, she coped by seeking love, worthiness, and acceptance in all the wrong places.
Fortunately, these life experiences served as the catalyst for her spiritual journey into yoga, meditation, channeled light healing, and coaching.
Over the years, Kristin worked to integrate her light and shadow, and has blended her learnings, experiences, and certifications into creative modalities to nurture and empower one’s fullest, most authentic expression.
When she’s not working on her own creative projects, she’s writing books for others, leading writing workshops, guiding people through their book writing process…or on her latest adventure.
Connect with her at kristinbirdwell.com
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Connection with others has always been most important to me, so I welcome you to my website. I’m delighted that you’re here and hope you will find something meaningful that sparks your interest. If you do and would like to talk about it, please contact me.
Before you read on, you might want to watch a few of the clips from an interview I did with Raymond Ellman, the founding editor-in-chief of Inspicio Arts, an arts publication sponsored by Florida International University’s College of Communication, Architecture, and the Arts. Within these short clips, you will be introduced to my work with Holocaust survivors, a sacred legacy journal project I did for the daughter of a friend who had died, some of my educational experiences, my journaling, and more.
In 2012, I completed Room 732, my debut collection of short stories based on the Hollywood Beach Hotel. Ever since 1984, with each walk I took along the shores of the Atlantic Ocean, I thought about writing this book. I never lost sight of that goal and finally cleared the space to sit down and make it happen.
After twenty years of working on my legacy journal project, I published Living and Leaving My Legacy, Vol. 1. —a legacy journal for this and future generations. In reading through 359 of my journals, I came to understand the value and impact of journaling as well as the importance of sharing the essence of who I am. I do so in the hopes that readers will look at my life as a mirror into their own. My ultimate goal is to help people understand that how we live our lives becomes our legacy.
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Christopher Veal is a former combat veteran, and a Black man with 25 years of experience in talent and leadership development. He hosts The Vulnerable Man podcast, is a TEDx speaker, and an executive coach and leadership consultant. He works with leaders to leverage vulnerability to create a deeper connection between themselves and those under their charge.
Christopher continues to learn how to be more vulnerable himself, finding inspiration in his amazing daughter. His new book, The Whole Man, is an examination of what it means to be a man, and how we benefit from evolving our definitions of masculinity and manhood in the 21st century.
He works deliberately each day to live into his purpose of creating authentic connections. He knows that some days he does better than others at leaning in to being vulnerable, and aims to improve with every interaction.
In his life he’s worn many hats: father, executive coach, Marine Corps officer, TEDx speaker, organizational development professional, facilitator, traveler, keynote speaker, podcast host, student of life, music lover, and explorer. He is excited to finally be adding Author to that list with the publishing of The Whole Man: Evolving Masculinity, which is the latest iteration of his quest to destigmatize the word ‘vulnerability’ for men.
When he’s not busy with these other pursuits, he loves spending time with his amazing daughter, listening to music, playing piano and (a little) guitar, mountain biking, riding his motorcycle, and is somewhat successfully training their Boxer, Apollo.
What holds men in unhealthy masculinity? Why is vulnerability looked down on in the 21st century?
In The Whole Man, authorChristopher Veal delves into these questions. Showing how men are held in unhealthy masculinity, Veal shows how to incorporate the idea of vulnerability to create a greater connection with people around us.
By incorporating interviews from his podcast, The Vulnerable Man, Veal saw a need for us to evolve a more inclusive approach to how we define masculinity. Key to this vision is the DE stigmatization of the word “vulnerability.” Embracing this vulnerability allows men to live a healthier and more complete version of what it means to be a man.
In this book, you will learn about:
- How masculinity has influenced men to be closed off from their emotions
- The five habits of the “Whole Man”
- How to build and maintain rich and deep relationships with others
The Whole Man is a book that speaks to people who want to look at masculinity in a healthier and more inclusive way, and who are ready to move beyond the confining views of outdated masculinity.
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Three madcap friends make a spontaneous decision to take a five-day break to the historic, cosmopolitan city of Istanbul, but almost from the start, things begin to go wrong. Their travel plans are put in jeopardy by a silly mistake. Their arrival is greeted with less than enthusiasm by the powers that be. The rest of their week is filled with drama, comedy, irony and, everything in between. Historic sites, thronging streets and beautiful vistas hold hidden pitfalls and all manner of escapades befall them.
Join them on their riotous journey where they encounter all kinds of events and characters that make this an unforgettable adventure.
Maisie Sullivan is the pen name of Kath Shadnia, a semi-retired teacher. Born in Islington, London, where she spent the first 40 years of her life. After leaving school she worked in administration, secretarial roles and also worked as an estate agent for many years. After the tragic death of her brother in 1990, she recognised that she felt unfulfilled.
Never having excelled at school, she decided to go back into education and studied for a degree in Business and Economics, at The University of East London. It was a proud moment when she graduated with an Honours Degree in 1993.
Shortly afterward she received a job offer for a teaching post abroad. In September 1993, with one suitcase, a one-way ticket, and sixty pounds in her pocket, she flew to the Middle East. She remained there for almost ten years.
On returning to the UK, she became a licensee but soon returned to teaching, and training teachers. She finally retired from education in 2017. She now pursues her other interests in Holistic and Complementary Therapy and her lifelong passion for writing.
Married, with two grown-up sons, she currently lives in Shropshire, with her husband and her rescue dog Ritchie.
Five Days in Istanbul is her debut novel.
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You're not doomed to repeat the past or hardwired to play out certain painful drama. The good life is not reserved for a select few. A new idea has surfaced in personal development which states: the only help you truly need is help from your total self.
A masterful blend of logic and spirituality, Accelerate Your Mojo walks you through a seven step process uniquely designed to spark intuition, transform fear into ease, and inspire your authentic self to rise up from within and be celebrated. Inspired by real life events, Accelerate Your Mojo reveals the true purpose behind emotion, offers a powerful formula to fully realize desires, and teaches you how to use challenges for positive change in your life.
This practical, easy-to-follow formula allows abundance and joy to be your most practiced states of being. Master the art of well-being as you learn to construct your reality in ways far better than you ever could have imagined..
About Allison Sutter
Allison Sutter, M.Ed., is a spiritual mentor and intuitive. She is recognized for her ability to seamlessly blend spirituality and practical self-help information making it relevant to daily life. Allison’s digital courses in visualization, abundance mindset, intuition and Law of Attraction have reach over 5K students.
Her mentorship program, Accelerate Your Mojo, helps women tap into and trust their intuition, transform fear when it shows and love their authentic self. You can learn more about Allison's programs and enroll at www.allisonsutter.com.
She lives in Highland Park, Illinois, with her husband and three children. Allison loves gardening, sunshine and reading.
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When the author wrote this book, she wanted to give readers a way to be more in the present in their lives. A way to stop worrying about things to excess. And a nudge toward getting past old unhelpful patterns and changing how they approach the world.
30 Little Thoughts was created to make you think, to give you that gentle nudge toward seeing all the choices you have in life.
In a series of little awareness's, author Meghan Jones, shares 30 Little Thoughts that will help you bring your focus into the present, make different choices, and create new patterns -- little by little, step by step. The author hopes the reader will find, in her book, little pockets of internal space, self-compassion, and gentler ways of looking at and living life on purpose.
About Meghan Jones
Meghan Jones is an IIN certified holistic health coach and AFAA certified personal trainer. Prior to her career in health and wellness, she has played professionally in a full-time orchestra for over 25 years.
As a health coach, Meghan looks at the relationship between her clients’ lifestyle choices & food choices, and how they both affect their health … and helps them start to change their lives by finding a complete, fully balanced, healthy, more plant-based approach that increases their focus, vitality, and longevity by eating in delicious, creative, joyful ways! She helps people clean up their eating & clean up their life, lower stress, and align with their worth & purpose by exploring attainable little action steps that will lead them to achieving their weight, exercise, & overall health goals.
Simultaneously, she works with her clients to discover and transform their internal mental and emotional limiting beliefs, discomforts, and any areas they seek to feel more grace, ease, & peace.
Meghan believes that every moment of every day, we can live our lives more & more on purpose.
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The sale is not complete until the money is in the bank...but you must collect it first.
Collections are uncomfortable for everyone involved on both ends of the unfinished transaction - the flustered customer dodging the persistent calls of companies with outstanding invoices for goods or services rendered, as well as corporate employees tasked with the job of acquiring the money businesses are owed. In Collect the Cash: The Sale is not Complete Until the Money is in the Bank, financial expert and author Dee Bowden teaches the business of collections doesn't have to be miserable - but it must be done. In Collect the Cash, Dee shares her personal blueprint that has propelled her into success for over 10 years in the B2B (business to business) collections industry, boasting $13 million dollars (and counting) of outstanding debt recovered for corporations and government agencies.
Combining personal anecdotes with proven methods of tangible solutions, Collect the Cash is a practical guide teaching businesses at every level to collect their money with ease, ensuring that every invoice is paid in full or ensuring that no money is left behind.
Dee wrote Collect The Cash to teach small business owners to solve their cash flow issues.
Dee has over 10 years revenue recovery experience and wants to assist business to collect the cash and stop leaving money on the table. The Sale is not Complete Until The Money is in The Bank!
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Myung Sung introduces the Korean art of living meditation as the way to achieve a life of balance and happiness. Using eight simple keys, listeners can enjoy all the calming, positive benefits of meditation in every minute of every day.
You can experience calm mindfulness in every moment of every day.
Most forms of meditation ask us to be still and quiet, to take time away from our busy lives, and forget about our ever-growing to-do lists. Myung Sung, the peaceful art of Korean mindfulness, does the opposite. Myung Sung is active, dynamic, a connectedness woven into our everyday experience through the practice of eight simple steps.
Through stories and wisdom passed down through generations and practical tools, Myung Sung will help you:
- Find balance and happiness
- Calmly resolve conflict
- Walk through stress
- Accomplish your life goals
Connect to your limitless reserves of natural energy and discover how your struggles - in work, marriage, parenting, friendships, health, money - become less difficult. By practicing the eight keys of Myung Sung, you can transform the way you live your life and uncover a greater sense of balance between mind, body, and spirit.
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about the book
Autism With a Side of SushiAutism with a Side of Sushi is a hopeful book about my experiences as a first-time mother, learning to navigate parenthood with a child on the autism spectrum. It shares the story of the connection between me and my son as we navigate the various stages of growing up. Starting from the first days of colic to the diagnosis to the successes and failures at school and home, this book will take you on our journey.
If you are touched by autism in some aspect of your life, this book will give insight on what life is like, parenting a child on the spectrum. If you are parenting a child on the spectrum, perhaps you will feel less isolated. Perhaps you are interested in learning more about the topic of autism. Whatever the reason you chose my book, I hope it will make you laugh, cringe, and roll your eyes with me and my son as we navigate our lives, our emotions and our unique challenges,
When I started this project, I asked my son if I could write a book that shared some of his stories and experiences. At first, he was hesitant but when he asked me why I wanted to write it, I explained that I wanted to share our lives with others so that more people can learn about autism. I told him that I wanted to write a book that makes autism common place, to remove the mystery surrounding the autism spectrum and to increase understanding and encourage kindness.
My son said that if this book will make people nicer to people on the spectrum, I should write it. And so, with his permission, I did.
About Kuri Yasuno
An immigrant from Japan at five years old, Kuri Yasuno arrived on Long Island, NY with her older brother and parents. After graduating Georgetown University, Kuri followed her love of creativity and worked in Marketing and Website Production at the Discovery Health Channel and the National Geographic Channel. With the birth of her children, Kuri switched gears to be a stay at home mom, caring for her now, two teenage boys.
When her older son was diagnosed with being on the autism spectrum, Kuri took her creative spirit and her positive mindset to focus on his education and social skills development. Kuri is writing this book to share her experiences as a mom of a special-needs child with humorous anecdotes and honest introspection. Her hope is for her story to inspire awareness, understanding, inclusion and especially kindness.
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About Fran Stalley
Fran Stalley is an expert by experience in complex trauma (C-PTSD). She was sexually, physically and psychologically abused by both her parents. She talks about the therapy she received over 25-years for her C-PTSD in her books.
After extensive EMDR therapy, she is now able to live her life largely unhampered by symptoms of C-PTSD. She shares her lived experience of complex trauma to help professionals - such as psychotherapists and adoption and foster agencies - who work with people with a history of trauma.
She has a bachelor’s degree in biological sciences and a foundation training in Open Dialogue. She lives in the UK with her dog.
I was suicidal at the start of this book.
By the end of it, I am living my life.
This unusual and uplifting book, Childhood Trauma Recovery: The Email Conversations With My Therapist That Helped Me Overcome Childhood PTSD is a true and authentic chronicle of my therapy journey to overcome childhood PTSD from extensive childhood abuse at the hands of both my parents. It is a first-hand account and shows the building of the therapeutic relationship, as told through a series of email conversations.
These compelling, intimate, emails are laid out in an easy-to-read way. They chart the ups and downs of nearly two years’ of EMDR therapy with my therapist who was a clinical psychologist and trauma specialist. These emails were an essential part of my recovery, because of how integral they were to developing the therapeutic relationship for me.
Childhood Trauma Recovery provides a rare opportunity to hear the client’s experiences of therapy, which are normally kept confidential.
In Childhood Trauma Recovery: The Email Conversations With My Therapist That Helped Me Overcome Childhood PTSD, you are drawn into the client-therapist relationship – a relationship that is normally kept private - and how this evolves and strengthens over the course of the book.
While the subject of C-PTSD is usually in the background, there are only a few mentions of specific memories. Instead, the book is more focused on my progress, which is what makes it heartening to read.
Childhood Trauma Recovery: The Email Conversations With My Therapist That Helped Me Overcome Childhood PTSD will be of interest to psychotherapists, psychotherapy students and anyone having therapy themselves for complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD).
If you are a psychotherapist, Childhood Trauma Recovery may help you both develop your practice and support your clients. Because it’s about the client-therapist relationship, it may challenge your perception of therapeutic boundaries.
If you are on your own journey to heal childhood trauma, then this book will be inspiring to read – you too may triumph over childhood PTSD.
If you know someone with C-PTSD, Childhood Trauma Recovery demonstrates that it is possible to heal childhood trauma and lead a more fulfilling life.
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Another great episode and another great author!
The ABC of How You Had Me: A Two Mommy Story is a sweet story that celebrates the different kinds of people and their donor-conceived children who need help from donors in order to become families.
About the AuthorVanessa Emily Hunt, M.B.A., was inspired to write this book because of her own journey to have a family.
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we welcome a fun guest to the podcast today!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR and our Guest!
Lizzy Cangro is an international expert nutritionist and wellness coach with a deep passion for helping other women finally get the body they’ve always wanted without dieting.
Inspired by my own journey to love my body, I founded Nutrition by Lizzy in 2017, to help clients stop calorie counting, enjoy eating without guilt and confidently step into the body they love - and sustain it.
I’m a licensed member of the Association for Nutrition, certified teacher and fitness instructor. My research-guided articles and podcasts on body image, healthy eating, self-love and weight loss have been featured across the world.
Holding an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge and an MSc in Nutrition from King’s College London, I pair a scientific approach with empathetic understanding to help my clients silence their inner critic, prioritize their health and wellness, practice self compassion, and let go of the anxiety of comparing themselves to other women.
As a teenager, bad advice from non-experts resulted in an eating disorder that lasted ten years. After much inner work, I reclaimed my body confidence, and now use my journey to inspire and motivate others to rebel against the diet industry and find confidence, joy and peace in their bodies.
The Book:
RECLAIM THE REBEL - 12 REBELLIOUS ACTS TO ACHIEVE UNCONDITIONAL LOVE FOR YOUR BODY
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About our Guest - Author Candice J. Frazier
A life lived in survival mode is not a life lived. After merely surviving for decades, Candice J. Frazier's desire to break the negative patterns in her life and LIVE became stronger than her fear of change.
Using her background as a medical assistant, bodybuilding enthusiast, and holistic master health, life, and mindset coach, Candice mastered her mind, starved her ego, and fed her soul. She discovered the keys to overcome addiction, codependency, grief from loss, and trauma from narcissistic abuse, domestic violence, and self-harm. Through her own experience healing from toxic abuse and a passion for art and writing, she created tools to assist others in their healing journey and shares them on her blogs and social media platforms.
Candice is the founder of EmBodyE Wellness and creator and Host of Reset Your Groove Podcast.
Her upcoming projects for 2021 include Zen Hikes & Outdoor Adventures; a nonprofit for her fellow military veterans, the 22 Halo Project; a nonprofit to elevate life skills for all, Harmony For Humanity; and philanthropy to aid others escaping violence, Dragonfly Devas Transitional Housing.
Books Coming Soon: A series of personal care books for ages children to seniors, as well as a mystery series, and more inspiring poetry. Her daily adventures in nature, quality time with her soul tribe, and her projects keep her blissfully happy and fuel her passion to create and serve from the heart.
Join her #BeLove #ADAPT #THRIVE movement today!
About the Book
Do you feel out of alignment with yourself? Are you suffering from disease, past traumas, addictions, eating disorders, low self-worth or other issues and behaviors that keep you from feeling like you’re living the best life you could? When we feel lost, unhappy, uncertain, or unloved, we get stuck living in fear, doubt, and lack.
Author Candice Frazier knows that dark place well. Once paralyzed by old beliefs and fear, after living her whole life in the chaos of trauma, she had to learn how to rewire beliefs, set healthy boundaries with herself and others to overcome codependency, narcissistic abuse, and discover how to accept, let go, forgive, and unconditionally love herself. Fascinated by the neuroscience of trauma and the brain, her curiosity led her to discover the art of energy, how powerful the mind-to-body connection is, and how spirituality, self-care, and mindset play a role in wellness and aligned living. From her research, she created tools that helped her recover from past traumas, heal, and thrive.
Namaste Away and Thrive includes Candice’s tools to understand what is happening; how to heal, forgive, and find peace, joy, happiness; and how to trust and love again. And her poems of self-discovery that helped her channel her painful emotions into beauty and hope instead of self-harm will move and inspire you to unconditionally love yourself and let go of negative influences from people, things, habits, and beliefs. If you want to understand how the body and mind work together …If you want to learn how to shift your focus from past traumas to changing your story …If you want to find forgiveness and let go of the negative influences that are blocking your ability to thrive … Then you need Namaste Away and Thrive. Learn how to live an authentic, abundant, and aligned life using the foundation of trauma as the revolution for your evolution. Build your new vision, and align powerfully with your health and wealth. Become the hero of your own story.
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After losing her beloved son to mental illness and addiction, Debbie Gail Zane transformed her life by turning her pain into her purpose of helping other parents of teens and young adults with mental illness and/or addiction. Through finding her calling, she was able to find healing for herself.
Debbie always knew she wanted to contribute to other people’s lives in a meaningful way. Throughout her journey, she sought to turn her pain into serving others.
Debbie is a Certified Life and Relationship Coach
Helping parents of teens and young adults with mental illness or addiction let go of their fears and live a life of peace and purpose while building a loving lasting relationship with their child.
https://debbiegailcoaching.com
Debbie's YouTube Channel
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About our guest
Philippa is a proud Northerner, who studied law at university, and she spent most of her career exploring the UK, subconsciously seeking "home". She settled in the beautiful city of Bristol where she now lives with her husband, two teenage sons and Bob the dog.
During her own personal transformation, through healing childhood trauma and learning to love and live for herself, she arrived at her soul mission to guide people to be the truest versions of themselves because she believes that is the greatest gift we can give ourselves.
She proudly supports NACOA (the National Association for Children of Alcoholics). Discovering a joy for writing, wild-swimming and even running (slowly) in mid-life has been a fabulous surprise.
Philippa has a podcast (Meeting of Minds) and is a certified coach. Her memoir, I See, Me, was released on 30th November 2021 and is available in paperback and on kindle at Amazon. To find out more about working with Philippa, click the button below
The Book:
I SEE, ME a memoir by Bristol author - Philippa Robinson
Release date: 30 November 2021Following her sight loss in 2017, leaving her long legal career in 2019 and the end of three years’ therapy in January 2020, Philippa knew she was going to write a book. She had learned so much since 2017, so much she had zero idea about before she started but had been so helpful in her healing. She felt compelled to write down everything she had learned about her life so far. Things like being the child of an alcoholic mother and being left by her father at a very young age, from losing her sight and redirecting her life vision and from being put on her first diet age 7. She wanted to write it all down to honour what she had been through, and to somehow draw a line under it. She also thought it might help raise awareness for others because she figured if she hadn't known any of it then there are likely to be other people who don't know as well.
The premise of the book is :
“In January 2017 when Philippa suddenly lost a lot of the sight in her right eye, what followed wasn’t just the medical process of recovering most of that sight but an unravelling of the previous 47 years of her life to revisit the things she had refused to see. The ensuing transformation has enabled Philippa to have a totally new vision of her present and future and a desire to share it with you in the hope that it can help you see things in a new light too.
This is Philippa’s journey from “less than” to “enough”, from fearful, in pain and angry to open, courageous and alive. “
Philippa’s wish for the book is that it leaves people feeling hopeful. In fact one reviewer told her that reading the book left her feeling “ …hopeful we can all go through the fire and come out better.” Another reader said “I cried for you, I cried for your Mum and I cried for myself”.
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About our Guest, Author & Coach
Angel Aviles is a former actress who is currently a Latinx influencer, an award-winning life coach, and a motivational speaker. She facilitates dynamic workshops, across the United States where she helps people learn to connect to their inner creative and use their anxiety as a wellness barometer.
When she is not at work, she is a mom, a traveler, a volunteer, a tech evangelist, a food justice advocate, a mentor, a soulmate, a seeker, and most of all, genuinely human.
The Movie- Mi Vida Loca
Mousie and Sad Girl are childhood best friends in a contemporary Los Angeles poor Hispanic neighborhood. But when Sad Girl becomes pregnant by Mousie's boyfriend, a drug dealer named Ernesto, the two become bitter enemies. While their dispute escalates towards violence, the violence of the world around them soon also impacts their lives.
The Book
Too Happy To Be Sad Girl: Surviving Sadness, Ditching Anxiety and Learning to Thrive
Are you looking for the courage and inspiration to finally start living your truth? Do you want to find happiness, stop struggling with low self-esteem, and finally kick anxiety to the curb?
Now's the time! Too Happy to Be Sad Girl is more than a self-help book. It's a deeply personal story about a woman who suffered through years of anxiety and panic attacks and often wondered why she was even alive. Written by brown-girl icon, Angel Aviles, also known as Sad Girl from the cult film, classic Mi Vida Loca. This heartfelt autobiography will make you laugh, cry, think, and encourage you to stand up for yourself! If you are ready to be inspired and take a brave step towards finding out who you are, what you want, and how to get there with joy, start reading this guidebook now. Angel keeps it real and gives you some insight into how you too, can learn to live with less anxiety and become the person you've always wanted to be.
Are you looking for the courage to finally start living your truth?
Are you ready to find happiness in yourself, stop struggling with self-worth, and finally kick anxiety to the curb?Now’s the time! Too Happy to Be Sad Girl is an inspiring guide that will make you laugh, cry, think, and finally stand up for yourself!
If you've spent years feeling like you've put everyone else's needs ahead of your own, struggling with self-esteem, or just felt like you were not living up to your potential, you're not alone. Every one of us has a unique journey, often filled with pain, hardship, and a hefty dose of dark times. Every one of us must find the strength and courage to live with and on purpose.
Angel Aviles is one of those people who made a living making movies. In fact, in 1993, she appeared as the Sad Girl in the cult classic film Mi Vida Loca. At some point though, her battle with anxiety and panic took her from heaven through hell. She learned so much in the process. Angel has helped countless women find self-worth and happiness in themselves. With her book, you can begin the process of becoming "too happy," too!
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About Lindsay Morgan Snyder
Hi, I'm Lindsay Morgan!
And I love helping people find connection with their Creator and rest within themselves.
Through a journaling modality, I call "The Scripting Method" we help powerful people connect to God and themselves in a dialogue format to gain everyday wisdom, more of God's love, new levels of freedom and a life changing intimacy with the one who loves them most.
I personally had no idea the intense fear I lived in all my life was rooted in a lack of love. Yes, I was the girl looking for love in all of the wrong places, that was until I ran smack dab into Love Himself.
He was more real then anyone I had ever met. I knew and served Him (Jesus that was) for close to a decade before He had me write a book on a subject that I had to learn the long hard way. Letting Love In, How God Renews Relationships by Crushing your Inner Critic.
What I found He was talking about wasn't the typical "love" relationship we think of when we think of love, but rather it was a more intimate relationship with Love Himself and a whole lotta lessons on how to love myself. See self hatred was at the core of most of all of my problems, but I didn't know it, I didn't know that self hatred is caused by being disconnected to your very own heart and there was only One solution that could help the pieces of myself come together and that was the hand of the One who created it.
The Book:
Letting Love In: How God Renews Relationships by Crushing Your Inner Critic
Open the Door to Lavish Love - Have you struggled to love yourself? Do you wonder what people think about you? Does fear keep you from moving forward in relationships? Author Lindsay Morgan Snyder explains how your Inner Critic may be holding you back and how you too can walk in love, joy, and freedom. A recovering self-saboteur, Lindsay endured the enemy's debilitating taunts for decades. Through personal stories and spiritual revelations, Lindsay shares how she evicted her Inner Critic and accessed renewing conversation with the Holy Spirit. She invites you to join a conversation with your Creator that will enrich all of your relationships. Give yourself permission today to experience the life of love that God wants you to live. Open the door to newfound intimacy with the Lover of your soul. Click above to start reading Letting Love In today!
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Please welcome Carrie Severson, CEO & Founder of The Unapologetic Voice House.
The Unapologetic Voice House is on a mission to build movements for unspoken voices to be seen, heard, and witnessed. As an independent publishing house, we publish brave, uplifting books that highlight or are told by courageous women or feature strong female characters. We're unapologetic in our passion for female voices and in our fierce approach to bring their stories to life.
Independent Publishers for Female Voices
We are Passionate About PublishingAlthough authors are indeed considered a business these days, not every Author has the time or energy to write the book and grow their following.
At The Unapologetic Voice House, we know firsthand what it takes to build a platform, create visibility, and grow an audience.
Founded in 2019, we've been privileged to help authors publish ground-breaking works, and we have several new titles in the works.
As independent publishers of female-driven stories, we're interested in building and launching legacies for women. We aspire to uncover new voices that women will be inspired by for years to come.
Our founder, Carrie, aspires to help determined, courageous women share their experiences with the world. Once a journalist, she has always had a passion for storytelling. In her first business venture, she created a series of workbooks that were sold through an independent publisher.
Eventually, she experienced burnout in her first business and went back to her roots of storytelling. She focused on telling personal stories for mass news outlets and even dabbled in public speaking for a bit. During that time, she wrote a book about her experience with burnout and pitched it to 80 traditional agents. Dozens responded positively with one big fat exception: her platform wasn't big enough.
We are committed to supporting our authors. After all, publishing a book is a marathon and a team sport. It's technical, creative, and strategic, and you shouldn't have to do it alone!
Supporting Authors Before, During, and After PublicationAt the Unapologetic Voice House, we work with authors with or without a platform. We're independent publishers who support every Author beginning the moment they sign their contract.
We work with our authors to have their work seen by as many people as possible while letting them hold the rights to their work.
Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and InclusionThe authors we work with come from all walks of life, and so do we. At The Unapologetic Voice House, diversity, equity, and inclusion are at the core of who we are and what we do.
This means we continually strive to engage, understand, and draw on various perspectives while ensuring that all individuals feel respected and experience fair treatment. Seeing beauty in diversity, we believe that every person’s voice has value, and we celebrate those differences. Through our commitment to breaking down the barriers of discrimination, we provide an equal opportunity to participate. Weaving these values in all aspects of our work, we help broaden conversations and create balance in our multicultural society.
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In this episode we speak with Jennifer Soames and she shares her personal story and more unfolds for us Traumatic Brain Injury (T.B.I.)
Do you feel hopeless, frustrated, lost and lonely? You are not alone. Many traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors struggle with invisible scars like depression, post-concussive syndrome, PTSD, anxiety, insomnia, memory and cognitive challenges, and more that most of the world doesn’t understand. Navigating the road to recovery, healing, and adapting can be lonely, frustrating, and without a lot of clear direction, until now.
Soames shares her own experience from two perspectives: living with a traumatic brain injury herself, and as an experienced licensed holistic health professional. Head of Hope provides anyone affected by TBI, including their families, friends, and caregivers, validation, information, inspiration, useful resources, and hope to help you live your best life, even with a TBI.
About Jennifer Soames
Jennifer Soames is a traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivor, certified yoga instructor, retired Board Certified Structural Integrator, and nutritional consultant. She is passionate about helping others affected by traumatic brain injury get the information, care, and support they need to live their best life.
Jennifer is a teacher, and loves to empower others to advocate for themselves, their health, and healthcare.
Outside of her professional life and writing, she enjoys spending time in nature, hiking, and camping. She also enjoys practicing yoga, weight training, traveling, and spending time with her husband, family, friends, and animals. She lives near Seattle, Washington, USA.
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Ana joins us with a great tool for authors to reach the US Market, sell their books and keep the money from the sale of their books. The big guys that sell books for authors cake take up to 90% of the sales from an author's book sales. 90%!
What Spots IS:
Spots is a virtual marketplace & entrepreneur community created for vendors to launch an online storefront, in an effort to share products, discover new customers, make more sales, and engage in incentives and interactive workshops. The Vendors that see the most success are the ones actively participating in the community, sharing their storefront, products, and growing engagement with customers and other Spots Vendors.
What Spots IS NOT:
Spots it NOT a “done-for-you” marketing service. Your success is a direct reflection of your own efforts in promoting and growing your own business.
Give Me the Lowdown!
Author Spots provides authors with a beautifully designed online marketplace for selling their books and getting more readers, reviews, and support nationwide. As a Spots Initiative, the platform is networked with other local and niche “spots” across the country that give the “little guys” a better chance at being competitive in the selling market. Authors Spots is a niche dedicated to authors who want to sell more books they have on hand! For a low monthly fee (and no selling fees), authors can list all the books they want, and they keep 100% of sales, paid instantly. Authors promote their personally branded book storefronts, which brings readers to their books as well as the books of others. When we all promote each other, we all win.
Do I get my own custom storefront?
You do! You can even add your logo, author details, contact information, and more. Best of all, you can direct readers right to your storefront, via your own URL. You can forward any purchase links on your existing website to your storefront or directly to individual books and promote it all over social media, email, and anywhere you like.
What are the benefits of being a Spots author?
There are so many, but a few benefits are:
- We Support Your Promotional Efforts!Seriously, this is a thing! We work alongside you to help grow, support, and share your storefront. We are all in this together… so let’s do this!
- Discover New CustomersWe give readers the power to shop all of their favorite authors in one spot from the comfort of their home.
- Quickly Add Unlimited BooksLaunch and expand your book sales online—no matter what genre you’re in. We give you the ability to easily add as many books as you’d like.
- Sell More Books… Make More MoneyCreate your storefront, add your books, fulfill your orders, and get paid straight to your Stripe account. Sell books to anyone, anywhere. It’s really that easy.
How do authors get paid?
You get paid for your sales INSTANTLY. How? Stripe! All authors are required to connect an existing or new Stripe account to their Spot. Why Stripe? Because Stripe is free, reliable, and extremely secure. Plus, it is extremely easy to set up and connect. Don’t have a Stripe account? No worries. All you need to do is a click a button in your Spots Dashboard and fill out a simple form. There is an industry-standard processing fee of 2.9% + 30¢ per transaction. The ACH transfer from Stripe to your connected bank account is 0.8%, capped at $5.
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As an RN, Sally Alter has professionally helped people heal. Her desire to help others extends into her writing, and she hopes to make a difference in the lives of others. As someone who suffers from bipolar, she knows how life-altering and uncertain this illness can be. Her book tackles the subject on a human level in a non-clinical way. After answering more than 800 questions on bipolar disorder on Quora, she's the top writer there with 20.3 million views to date. With a goal of continuing to help others, she hopes to reach a whole new group of people suffering from bipolar.
She was born in London and currently resides in Texas with her cat, Greta. When she's not writing, she can be found creating stunning colored pencil drawings and watercolor paintings. She's traveled extensively and even toured the States for six years in an RV. While staying in campgrounds, she taught writing and painting.
At present, she is working on another bipolar book and plans on publishing it in the spring.
http://sallyalter.com
Book: BIPOLAR 1 RESCUE PLAN
Perhaps you have just been diagnosed and don’t know where to start. Or maybe you’ve had bipolar 1 for a long time, and tried everything but failed. You may even have had problems at home, or at work, or with making friends. Whatever your situation, if you are still suffering all the symptoms of this debilitating illness, I will be able to help you.
You will find this book covers all kinds of topics, maybe things you hadn’t even thought of before. You may like to try new recipes that can help you eat a nutritious diet, learn how to do creative visualization, and try new organizational skills to keep you on track. I have it all here for you in this book. And I have written it to help you get well and stay well.
Book: HOW TO LIVE WITH BIPOLAR
My aim is to help people who are struggling with bipolar, as well as people who have loved ones affected by this illness.
My easy-to-understand answers are taken from more than 50 years of firsthand experience with this capricious illness. The book covers many subjects in depth: Basic questions about bipolar; help for those coping with the disorder; answers to questions about relationships; coping skills for depression, mania/hypomania, and psychosis. There is also a chapter on anxiety and panic attacks as this affects many people with bipolar.
This book is packed with information given in a conversational style, not from a scientific point of view. My hope is that through my experiences I may be able to help you.
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About Charles Matheus
Charles Matheus is an adventurer, entrepreneur, mentor, and leadership consultant. He has led individuals and groups to the top of the highest peaks in Wyoming and to the bottom of the Grand Canyon (and back!). He uses the facilitation and coaching skills he honed in those intense, high-risk wilderness settings to support, teach, and mentor experienced and emerging leaders in business, higher education, and the nonprofit sector.
Charles is on a mission to help other men feel powerful and confident as they step away from old, unsound leadership models and toward more inclusive, flexible, and sustainable modes. Charles’s TEDx talks, keynotes, and workshops have inspired hundreds of workshop participants, and conference attendees.
Charles is a Mankind Project facilitator, men’s group coach, and acts as a consultant for several ongoing men’s empowerment, leadership, and study groups. Charles also co-hosts the “Remaking Manhood” podcast which features conversations with men and women at the forefront of the Healthy Masculinity movement.
We speak with Charles as he and his family are on the brink of a major move from Arizona to New York State - we talk about the journey they are on, buying a home via Zoom, moving to a town they haven't even been to yet, starting life in a new setting, leadership, masculinity and being the man the world needs!
A fun conversation with an engaging guest and thought leader!
Leadership & Masculinity: Embracing New Strength
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Today we welcome novelist, Paul Attaway and discuss the series of fictional books that he is building and the journey he is on as an author.
What It Means To Be A Southern Storyteller
On the simplest level, I define myself as a “Southern Storyteller” because my stories are either set in the South and/or involve characters that are born in the South. But there’s more to it than that. Every part of this country possesses its’ own unique charm and beauty as well as its’ own sordidness and ugliness, the South maybe more so. I hope to write stories that depict what Southerners are like and what life is like in the South and do so with compelling characters that may at times embody the good, the bad, the beautiful and the ugly. But I have hope and so it is my goal that readers, after finishing one of my stories, will put the book down filled with hope as well.
Purchase Paul's Books in person on onlineBook: Blood in the Low Country About the book - Step back in time a bit. The year is 1973, and by all appearances, Monty Atkins has a wonderful life. Along with his wife, Rose, the girl of his dreams he met in college, they are raising two boys, Eli and Walker. Humble but competitive, Monty is slowly but steadily building a profitable and well-respected law practice in beautiful Charleston, SC. His hard work, steeped in a deeply ingrained Protestant work ethic, is paying dividends in the form of a second home on Kiawah Island and membership in the exclusive Wappoo Country Club.
Rose, an aspiring socialite, chairs committees and works tirelessly for her church and the school their boys attend.
So, yes, Monty Atkins has a wonderful life, until he doesn’t. In a flash, everything changes when a brutal murder and a shocking betrayal turns their world upside down. Brewing beneath the surface lurks a conspiracy of lies about who they are and what they believe.
The wellspring of deception and ensuing dysfunction that threatens to destroy all they have built is Rose’s past, a past she can’t outrun.
In the hunt for the killer, Monty draws the ire of one of Charleston’s most prominent businessmen, who sets out to destroy him.
Monty now faces a multi-front battle, one to save his family, one to save his business and one to save his life.
So, yes, step back in time and immerse yourself in a taut, tension-filled thriller where the genteel veneer of life in the
South lived by those for whom Sunday Brunch at the Club is as holy as that morning’s church service is stripped away.
Book: Eli's Redemption About the book - In Eli’s Redemption, Paul Attaway writes a novel that stands on its own but also picks up where he left off, at the exciting climax of Blood in the Low Country, his debut set in Charleston, S. C. in the 1970s.
In Eli’s Redemption, we catch up with Eli Atkins, betrayed and abandoned, and living in the Bahamas where he seeks refuge in a new identity. But angry, lonely, and adrift, he remains aloof, never allowing anyone close enough to hurt him.
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In this episode we take a seat on the bench with Michael Ulmer and talk sports, hockey, writing for a daily paper, writers block and the life of an published author!
MICHAEL ULMER is the published author of the bestselling hockey title, If the Cup Could Talk and the national bestselling children's book, M is for Maple. A well respected sport journalist, Mike covered the Leafs for the Toronto Sun and currently the senior writer for Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. Mike resides in Hamilton, Ontario.…
You may want to write a book about your business but feel intimidated by the prospect. You don't feel confident writing and wonder if you have a story worth telling. Well you can (for much less money than you think ) and you have that story. I've interviewed more than 10,000 people and have yet to find someone without a story that deserves sharing, a story that illuminates who they are, what they do why they do it.
Writing a book profoundly heightens how you are perceived. I know. I've been dining out on this for decades.
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This podcast is dedicated to our daughter Hadlee - we love you.
A two part podcast interview with Jillian Abby aka QueerAbby.com - Jill shares her story with us as she helps to humanize the struggle within the LGBTQIA2S Community for recognition, acceptance and equality.
Jillian Abby- Author of “Chronic Case of Hetero” (Hay House April 2023), blogger at QueerAbby.com, TikTok somethingorother at @AskQueerAbby. Mother of two and proud lesbian and advocate for kindness.
People can contact me with questions or for bat mitzvah appearances at Jill@JillWritesWords.com. I would love if they’d sign up for my newsletter (that I’ve never sent) at QueerAbby.com.
Jill is launching her own podcast called “In the Q” in July with Dr. Treisha Peterson (Mama phD) where we discuss that messy middle transition space for the LGBTQ+ and those who love them (but maybe don’t always know how to support them).
Jill shares on her site,...
DEAR LGBTQIA2S, ALLIES, & FUTURE ALLIES:
I am so glad you're here!
It's hard to love and appreciate things we don't understand. Our minds seek comfort in the familiar, what it knows and is steady... whether that knowledge is good and true or not.
I've found through my own coming out process, heaps of internalized homophobia. That fear came from not knowing. Shame came from what I thought LGBTQ+ meant, instead of what it actually was. Layers of societal conditioning that told me a story of fiction, instead of fact.
But to paraphrase the brilliant Dr. Maya Angelou, "When we know better, we do better."
Enter this space with curiosity, an open mind, and an open heart.
Ask questions and let's learn more.
Together we can build bridges of understanding.This special two part episode is meaningful for our family - our daughter let us in on her journey and it hasn't been easy. As parents, Jen and I have grown up with a church background, we have a long-standing Christian heritage and deep beliefs engrained in our thoughts and actions. In a world that tends to focus on what separates us (a belief, an experience, an expression of who we are) our hope is that this conversation will build a bridge. True love erases all fear.
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EPISODE 21 -
This podcast is dedicated to our daughter Hadlee - we love you.
A two part podcast interview with Jillian Abby aka QueerAbby.com - Jill shares her story with us as she helps to humanize the struggle within the LGBTQIA2S Community for recognition, acceptance and equality.
Jillian Abby- Author of “Chronic Case of Hetero” (Hay House April 2023), blogger at QueerAbby.com, TikTok somethingorother at @AskQueerAbby. Mother of two and proud lesbian and advocate for kindness.
People can contact me with questions or for bat mitzvah appearances at Jill@JillWritesWords.com. I would love if they’d sign up for my newsletter (that I’ve never sent) at QueerAbby.com.
Jill is launching her own podcast called “In the Q” in July with Dr. Treisha Peterson (Mama phD) where we discuss that messy middle transition space for the LGBTQ+ and those who love them (but maybe don’t always know how to support them).
Jill shares on her site,...
DEAR LGBTQIA2S, ALLIES, & FUTURE ALLIES:
I am so glad you're here!
It's hard to love and appreciate things we don't understand. Our minds seek comfort in the familiar, what it knows and is steady... whether that knowledge is good and true or not.
I've found through my own coming out process, heaps of internalized homophobia. That fear came from not knowing. Shame came from what I thought LGBTQ+ meant, instead of what it actually was. Layers of societal conditioning that told me a story of fiction, instead of fact.
But to paraphrase the brilliant Dr. Maya Angelou, "When we know better, we do better."
Enter this space with curiosity, an open mind, and an open heart.
Ask questions and let's learn more.
Together we can build bridges of understanding.This special two part episode is meaningful for our family - our daughter let us in on her journey and it hasn't been easy. As parents, Jen and I have grown up with a church background, we have a long-standing Christian heritage and deep beliefs engrained in our thoughts and actions. In a world that tends to focus on what separates us (a belief, an experience, an expression of who we are) our hope is that this conversation will build a bridge. True love erases all fear.
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EPISODE 20 -
We spend time with Rebekah Chaifetz Saltzman from her home in Israel!
Rebekah is a personal organization expert and a sustainable lifestyle leader in the Jewish community. Decluttering, reducing waste and a simplified Jewish life are all married in her premiere book Organized Jewish Life: The Essential Guide to Planning Jewish Holidays, Events and Every Day.
A busy mother of three and entrepreneur, Rebekah knows the struggles of keeping it all together. Pair that with the revolving Jewish calendar, managing all the customs, and everyday life and it's easy to drown.
Using her expertise as a personal organizer, Rebekah has tackled the seemingly impossible task: making Jewish customs, traditions and holidays simple with the ultimate checklist for Jewish life. It will start making lives easier in 2022.
Every week, Rebekah helps people all over the world from all different denominations, declutter their lives in popular virtual decluttering sessions, Power Hours. She is thrilled for her book to impact lives in a new way and help people find happiness and peace beneath all of the clutter.
Follow along here on Amazon and on Instagram at @BalaganBeGone or on her podcast Journey To Organization.
Getting ready for the holidays doesn't have to cause you stress. This workbook is designed to be your cheat sheet and navigate your Jewish life. Designed to help you plan, prep, and schedule but also to get you to the table relaxed and calm so you can enjoy your holiday meals with your family and friends.
No one can remember everything, writing it all down keeps you organized and stress free for this year and all the years to come. Change your life and organize your calendar, shopping lists and planning for the holidays in one place.
This is a companion workbook to Organized Jewish Life, The Ultimate Organizational Checklist and Planning Guide by Personal Organization Expert Rebekah Chaifetz Saltzman from Balagan Be Gone personal organization. For more information head to www.balaganbegone.com.
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Check out this episode with Author Jo Ann Richards and her book Midlife Magic. Jo Ann shares her back story as a Mormon, her seven marriages, stories and experiences in the world outside the everyday, UFOs, aliens, faeries, paranormal, magic!
Jo Ann was a great guest, we are hoping that her stories, and her background opens the doors to consider what is out there, how to survive and thrive everyday!
Midlife Magic takes you on the transformative journey of Jo Ann Richards' life, from her typical suburban childhood, through six marriages involving abuse, divorce, and death, to her current marriage to a military intelligence officer incarcerated for a crime he didn't commit.
Jo Ann had been an active member of the Mormon Church for nearly 30 years before leaving it behind to fully embrace the world of UFOs, elementals, magic and the paranormal which had long spoken to her soul.
Through her many struggles, she found her strengths, gifts, and inner power, and learned that dreams can, and do, come true. Today she is a warrior who proudly carries the title, Wise Woman-Crone.
Jo Ann's book - Midlife MagicLiving The Next Chapter Podcast created by TrueMediaSolutions.ca
EPISODE 18 -
In this episode we hang on tight with our thrill seeking, cliff hugging, helicopter rescued, shark swimming guest Kathy White and discuss her book tackling anxiety, depression and how hurt people, hurt people.
Unleash The Warrior Within
Have you ever been to that place where you don’t know if you care anymore; care about life, care about living?
I was broken for years. I didn’t know how to love myself. I was a people pleaser and as a result , I often took on too much and caused anxiety in my life. I gave others the responsibility of making me happy. I had the patience of an angered wasp. I put everyone else’s needs in front of my own and took no time for myself.
I was successful by other people’s definition of success, based on what they saw as their version of me, but, I was empty inside I didn’t know how to change. I read books, went to counseling and seminars, but nothing seemed to help me.
I thought this was my lot in life. Depression and anxiety run in my family. I used to come home from school to find my mom on the couch sleeping for hours. I thought it was a normal part of life. I knew no different.
One day I was driving home from work and thought to myself – Is this all that life is? Wake up. Drive to work. Work. Drive Home. Make Dinner. Go to Bed. Repeat. I felt like a robot. I thought to myself that there had to be more in life than this.
I learned to put a shell around my heart and not let people close to me throughout my life. If they don’t get close to me, then I can’t get hurt. Sound familiar? As I gradually progress through my journey of self-discovery, the shell is breaking into pieces.
I know for that reader that is going through a dark time, some of the things I advise doing are not easy. Start small. There are questions and exercises at the end of this book for you to ask yourself and do for yourself. Some will be harder than others and some questions you just might not feel worthy to answer right now. Let me tell you this -- You are loved. You deserve to be happy. You are worthy to attain the life you want. Use this book to help you heal and gain the joy in your life.
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LaQuanna Lampley joins us to talk about her book "I Learned to Fly in the Rain" LaQuanna shares her inspiration for writing this book, a story of resilience, inspiration and healing!
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Sports combines team play, individual preparation, mental agility, grit and practice - business has many similar tenants, expectations and disciplines. Tanvir shares a bridge from his time on the field to his time in the boardroom - The P.R.O. Business Mindset is designed for team players, coaches, employees and team leads - grow your team and build yourself at the same time!
After realizing that what Tanvir learned in football allowed him to transform global brands, build high performing teams, boost retention, grow digital sales, and execute in chaotic, uncertain environments, Tanvir decided to reverse engineer these learnings. Tanvir created the P.R.O. Business Mindset, the methodology to lead amid disruption and chaos.
Tanvir is regularly featured on Forbes, HR.COM, CEOWorld, Authority Magazine, top leadership podcasts, and leading media outlets. He speaks on leadership and transformation in a digital, chaotic, uncertain world.
Tanvir also hosts The Sports to Business Podcast, where he interviews former athletes turned executives on winning in business during uncertainty and disruption.
https://tanvirbhangoo.com/
https://tanvirbhangoo.com/sports-to-business-podcast/
https://tanvirbhangoo.com/probusinessmindset/
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A story that starts in foster care and leads to fatherhood - Antonio Grate (aka The Ex-Foster Kid) shares his journey and his continued passion for kids and families in the foster care system. Antonio has a message of hope for his listeners, and his book "The Power of One" has opened doors to speak life into his audience as he does today with us on Living The Next Chapter!
Antonio Grate is a dynamic speaker, educator, minister, husband, and father of four. He currently sits on the board of Shoals CASA (court appointed special advocate), a nonprofit organization that works with volunteer advocates for children who have experienced abuse or neglect. The mission of this organization is dear to his heart because of his own personal experiences growing up in one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in Chicago, his mother's addiction to drugs, living in foster care, and other struggles and obstacles as well.
Through his own personal and dynamic story he shares strategies that will help at-risk youth, students, and adults alike to win inwardly first and then outwardly. His willingness and strong desire to pour into the lives of those who are in youth detention centers, alternative schools, the foster care system, church youth groups, and general school populations stems from his passion to serve this generation and the next with the sole mission to equip them with the tools needed to face and overcome their current obstacles while becoming the best version of themselves.
With great transparency Antonio shares a motivating, inspiring, and empowering message on how to strategically get over the hurt, disappointment, and anger that plague so many of us today. His tag line BEGRATEFUL is a message that's designed to bring about hope, healing, restoration, love, and victory in the lives of his audiences.
It is his mission to tell his story of how he has overcome insurmountable odds to now live a life of joy, peace, happiness, and love. His passionate delivery and heartfelt sincerity touches the hearts of listeners and leaves them wanting more.
Connect with Antonio via IG : https://www.instagram.com/antoniodgrate/
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In this powerful episode of Living The Next Chapter we sit down with a survivor, a superhero, a mother and daughter duo that never gave up, despite the horror that they both lived through together. A true story, a lived experience so often hidden from daily life. Connect with an author who had to tell her story - a story that will save lives.
Author Victoria Cuore joins us on the Living The Next Chapter Podcast to share her story and her powerful Memoir, Who Kicked First.
Victoria shares, "Little did I know that in the upcoming year, my life-long dreams would become a reality, namely that I would become a mother to a miraculous little girl. Nevertheless, both my daughter and I would fight the battle of our lives, a true test of love and survival. This would all be at the hand of an alcoholic psychopath who took both me and my unborn daughter to death’s door on more than one occasion. Everything I am would be stolen from me, my self-esteem, my pride, my body and very nearly my ability to even live and breathe. All would soon be in mortal danger, all because of a man. The real question is who kicked first?"
Victoria shared a website on our podcast - there is hope here for anyone in a situation like Victoria once was - if you need help, go to her website and find the tools you need to get on a new path in life. You are not alone.
https://www.acontagioussmile.com/
https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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Join in on the conversation with a new author! M.L. Farrell shares her new book "How Much Can I See: A novel in Essays"
M. L. Farrell is pleased to announce the release of her debut novel, How Much Can I See, which explores her life and struggles as a legally blind individual.
The book follows the story of Maya, a legally blind woman. To add to her legal blindness, Maya was diagnosed with cancer. Luckily for her, she survived cancer, and when things began to fall into place, an event that would further shape her life occurred. Maya is now 30 years old, and she wakes up from a coma, strapped to a hospital bed, with her deceased grandmother’s beautiful spirit encouraging her to come back and rejoin the land of the living.
Maya was not interested in living again. According to her, “I just didn’t care. It’s hard to grow up thinking no one wants you. That you’re nothing but a burden. Ever since I was five years old, the trauma of constant surgeries was also very hard. People were supportive, but no one wanted to be the blind kid. The sick kid. And the black kid.”
Speaking about M. L. Farrell’s book, D. D. Scott, an International Bestselling Author, had this to say, “M. L. Farrell’s debut book is an incredible opportunity to learn the challenges faced, the victories won, and the battles lost during the heart-expanding journey of living life legally blind. Poignant, but with a wonderful sense of humor woven in, she has written a story you’ll never forget. I’m looking forward to her next book.”
About Author
M. L. Farrell is a native of Indiana, although she did reside in Arkansas for several years and has some beloved family still living there. She attended The School for the Blind and Visually-Impaired in Indiana and Arkansas. M. L. Farrell also received her Certification in Office Administration through Indypendence Job Corp. She has faced several health challenges head on, and she hopes that readers will feel strengthened, inspired, and entertained through her writing.
Links:
ML Farrell's book link
MN Farrell Facebook Group
ML Farrell on Facebook
ML on Instagram
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EPISODE 12 -
In this episode we hunt down the lion that seeks to devour us, that keeps us from our full potential in life, and as Justin states, anything that keeps him from his Starbucks! As leaders in life, ministry and teaching, leaders are thought to have conquered all of the things in life that can tear you down and destroy your future. Don’t fear the things that hunt you - hunt them instead!
Justin debunks the belief that we as leaders are perfectly put together and free from lions. It is when we address, recognize and engage our lions, those things meant to hurt and harm us, it is then that we can live beyond our fear and grow in our relationships with others and gain strength by sharing our story!
Justin Belt was born in Jackson, MS where he was raised by loving parents and instilled the traits of honor, respect, dignity, and love. The schools he attended, especially Jim Hill High School, opened his eyes to the world around him that was accessible through the arts that he had natural talents for, writing and music. It is in those mediums where Justin sought to expand his craft, managing several blogs and writing with a collective of bloggers called The Write Addiction. After spending 14 formative years in Joplin, MO, Justin and his family are now residents of North Dallas, TX, where he teaches students his love of reading and writing, and attempts to inspire them to use their voices to change the world in positive ways.
Justin writes about his life and experiences, yet uses personal stories as cautionary tales, or means to inspire and encourage others to be courageous and to believe that life holds good things. As a servant on several pastoral staffs, Justin seeks to lead others into a closer relationship with Christ through his words and songs. His first book, "Slaying the Lion: Hunt what is Hunting You" is one such book.
We are all running from something. In the shadows there lurks a lion, big and hungry to devour us and swallow us up in guilt, shame, fear, addiction and every other malady there is. It's time to turn the tables. It's time to stand up, grab your weapon and go hunting. Face your lion. SLAY your lion!
Slaying the Lion is a call to arms for many who have felt defeated in parts of their lives. It is encouragement to be courageous in the battles that we often have with parts of ourselves that others may not be privy to, while also encouraging the reader to find strength in community. This book will change the way that you see God and the way that you see yourself. Take the challenge today. It is time to stop running away. Stand up, take a breath, and slay the lion
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Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/_jbspeaks/
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In this episode I sit down with a good friend with a unique side hustle - Mark Griffin and I have known each other for many years, most recently, Mark has been ghost writing and has several books written for other people, in their words, cadence, spirit and nuance - a unique behind the scenes discussion with a completely different form of writing - right here on the Living My Side Hustle Podcast.
Reasons to Hire a Ghostwriter
Ghost writing is a common practice, though it isn’t often publicized. When someone wants to create new copy for a website, a ghostwriter may be hired to rewrite existing copy. There are many similar jobs such as writing ad or business copy, or supplying new or rewritten material for personal or professional use. The ghost is hired primarily as a professional freelance writer, in order to produce high-quality writing copy that reads professionally.
A side hustle can be any number of interesting avenues - here is yet another example of someone "living" their side hustle!
Enjoy!
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EPISODE 10
In this episode of Living the Next Chapter we speak with Author and retired NYPD, Vic Ferrari about his multiple books giving readers a behind the badge view of life as an NYPD Officer and Detective.
Author Vic Ferrari is a retired New York City Police Department detective with the hamstrings of a twenty-year-old. A survivor of an Irish father and Italian mother, Vic loves a cold beer and insists on you removing your shoes when entering his home. When he's not writing, he's picking up after his neurotic Irish Wolfhound. Always looking to save a buck, Vic splits his time between Branson, Missouri, and Papua New Guinea.
We talk to Vic about the following books:
- Grand Theft Auto: The NYPD’s Auto Crime Division
- NYPD: Law & Disorder
- NYPD: Through the Looking Glass: Stories From Inside America's Largest Police Department
- The NYPD's Flying Circus: Cops, Crime & Chaos
Vic also shares a special portion of the podcast of his memories on 911 when New York was rocked by the horrific events that shocked and changed the world. Vic was there and shares with us stories that you might not have heard before.
Vic is writing another book and we hope to have him back again to share his latest project in the future!
Check out Vic's Author Page on Amazon
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EPISODE 9
Join us as we spend time with Mick Smith and discuss his novel - Burning America : In The Best Interest of the Children?
Mick has written a novel based on his own personal lived experience - a life story that could have had a very tragic end, a story about family, parents, abduction, pain, fear and the uphill climb to regain connection with a child taken from the home. Mick shares his backstory with us, the impetus for his novel and why he wrote this. We talk parenting, our love for our kids, the legal system, separation and share the immense uncertainty of being separated from your child.
Mick shares great insight and his lived experience with us, you will learn something about yourself as you hear Mick's words.
Our very first Novel edition of Living The Next Chapter - I hope you love it!
Mick's Links:
https://www.wsiworld.com/mick-smith
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EPISODE 8
Please welcome to the Living The Next Chapter Podcast, Author - Paul Gray as we discuss his new book Grace To All
Meet Paul Gray
Paul Gray's message “Grace Is UNconditional Love In Action!” focuses on helping people experience and enjoy God’s love WITHOUT CONDITIONS for all people. He has found that knowing God personally leads to enjoying and experiencing life at a much higher level!
He and his wife of 48 years, Kitsy, live in Lawrence Kansas where they continue to facilitate growing in grace at the church they founded in 1991, New Life in Christ. They have three wonderful grown children and 6 amazing grandchildren! Convertible Conversations¸ a short week-day video series on a wide range of topics, are posted by Paul at Online Community Church on Facebook.
Paul’s career began with his studies at Kansas University in 1965, where he formed his band, the Gaslite Gang, which made several national television performances and recorded five albums. They performed full-time from coast to coast for many years doing educational concerts and clinics as well as performing at a variety of venues. Paul owned a variety of businesses ranging from five retail music stores to a long-distance telephone company, as well as Paul Gray’s Jazz Place, a popular Lawrence, Kansas, jazz venue where he performed with his group. Concurrently, he served in the United States Army National Guard and Army Reserves for 24 years as a bandmaster.
In 1999 his church started a medical clinic for homeless individuals, The Heartland Medical Clinic, where he was CEO for 7 years. It continues to serve the medical needs of thousands of patients each year. Paul Gray holds an education degree from the University of Kansas and a degree in Grace Theology from Global Grace Seminary.
Paul is the author of the inspirational books “Convertible Conversations and “The Fish Net Experience. He is co-author of “Godly Men Make Godly Fathers.
Authors are know by their words - Paul demonstrates his words. Grace is not a measured response to those that we accept or exclude - grace isn't about us, it is about others. If you feel that words will save you, a reminder faith and words without action is dead.
Links
Paul Gray's Website
Paul's Podcast - Grace To All
Paul's Library of Books
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EPISODE 07
In this episode of Living The Next Chapter, we sit down for a great conversation with Larry Olsen and discuss mindset, getting off of a life set to auto-pilot, accepting yourself first, how to deal with failure and trying to change another person instead of focusing on yourself!
Larry R. Olsen is an expert in the field of performance driven neurology and leads his field in leadership development, world class cultures and accelerated performance.
His mesmerizing keynotes take audiences beyond what they currently thought was possible. The results of his leadership and culture consultations are as unlimited as the human imagination itself.
He believes that success is not the size of the company’s vision but the size of the vision within each associate which creates engaged, fun and sustainable organizations. The success of his diverse client list speaks volumes to the power of vision like Pepsi, Starbucks, State Farm, Toyota, EPA, Harley-Davidson, YMCA, Akron University Men’s Soccer, Tropicana, Honda, Fellowship of Christian Athletes as well as many startups and small businesses.
What makes Larry unique and so easy to partner with has a lot to do with his childhood experience of being the sole sibling of a mentally delayed sister. Wanting to know the why behind her circumstance led Larry on his quest; why are some successful and others not? Where does success come from? And how can you make it a habit, not an accident? Larry’s answers to those questions came by researching and studying psychology and neuroscience for over 40 years, extracting the secrets to long lasting change and personal excellence.
As an executive leadership coach and mentor, Larry Olsen’s knowledge and experience of mindset, drives the understanding of how we can all accelerate performance, make permanent changes to our lives and culture, while generating immediate, tangible, and measurable results.
Get a Vision and Live Itis a concise and effective guide to tapping personal power and overcoming personal barriers.
Larry Olsen recognizes that the ability to succeed lies within everyone. Get a Vision and Live It taps into that ability through a few, very simple methods which use individual resources that already exist. Through this incredibly user-friendly and adaptable guide, Larry Olsen will uncover what works for you. In Get a Vision and Live It, Larry Olsen speaks directly to the listener. His is the voice of a person who defines success in human terms, from a "been there, done that," perspective.
Visit LarryOlsenLive.com for Larry's contact information
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EPISODE 06Please join us in welcoming a new author to Living The Next Chapter! Chris Michel is the owner of Coach Chris Consulting. Chris' brand new book launching early spring of 2022 is called The Red Chair Experience.
About Chris Michel
With over 30 years of sales and leadership experience, as both an individual contributor and team leader, Chris is well positioned to provide proven advice and counsel in the areas of sales processes and management techniques. He has sold in Business to Consumer (B2C) and Business to Business (B2B) situations, gaining, developing, and honing skills in the areas of customer service, customer needs and manufacturing demands to meet short-term and long-term sales cycles. He has applied this knowledge moving into management where he continued to develop effective tools to coach others succeed.
Chris has been a leader in multiple companies, focusing on business development, increasing revenue and profits, recruiting, hiring, and development of individuals and teams. He has been in the HVAC industry for the past several years, developing and fine-tuning sales programs and processes including training programs focused on effective sales techniques, customer service and pricing programs to increase revenue and profits.
When he is not spending time with his family, Chris volunteers with Habitat for Humanity, plays golf, listens to music, reads books and writes.
The Red Chair Experience is designed as a daily read - a book that will accompany you throughout the year, providing daily inspiration and thought provoking stories to help frame your day! This is not a one-time-read-book! This is a book that you can read over and over again, gaining new insight each time! In this episode we discuss the writing process, Chris provides inspired thoughts for new authors and we even hear an exert from his book!
Please see Chris' links below and let him know that you heard about his new book, right here, on the Living The Next Chapter Podcast!
Links:
Coach Chris Consulting
The Red Chair Experience
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EPISODE 5
Welcome back to Living The Next Chapter - today we introduce you to the book, Selling With Dignity. Meet my new Clubhouse friend! Harry Spaight on the Living The Next Chapter Podcast
About Harry
Harry Spaight is a Keynote Speaker, Author, and Coach. Having grown up in a small New England town with old school values, Harry became involved in mission work. To support himself he had a small janitorial/office cleaning business. The mission work is what gave Harry the most joy and purpose. That work led him to spend two years in the Dominican Republic working with the local population to improve upon their life skills and spiritual growth.
Upon returning to the States, Harry transferred his skills, working with people, to sales. With very little business acumen, Harry applied the principles from the Bible as a guide of how to treat people. Those principles that were two thousand years old or more still proved to be practical. It was all about serving others. Harry believed that people would buy from him if he had a servant’s mindset. The principles worked. Harry eventually moved and was leading a team of sales professionals in downtown Washington DC, just a few blocks from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Would the principles work in such a competitive market as Washington DC? The answer is Yes. The principles are indeed timeless.
Now, after spending over 20 years as an Award-Winning Multi-million Dollar Sales Producer and Sales Leader in the extremely competitive arena of corporate sales, Harry knows firsthand how to be successful in sales and lead winning teams. While many sales leaders choose the cozy corner office, Harry preferred to be in the street, sleeves rolled up so to speak, with his team.
Harry is one who leads by example, knowing it is better to get in the trenches with his people than to bark commands at them. He spearheaded sales teams to achieve amazing success that resulted in over 100 million dollars in business. Harry has a “Serve Others First” mindset, which is largely due to having served for over a decade as a missionary.
Harry’s understanding of clients, sales professionals, and Sales Leaders in building trusting relationships, gives people the confidence in putting his knowledge and experience into practice.
Harry is the co-host of a Top 20 podcast “Lead Sell Grow, The Human Experience” and his inspirational book “Selling With Dignity” is now available. Harry is on a mission to take the sleaze out of sales and show success in sales can be achieved with honor.
Harry works with sales teams and executives to elevate their craft of selling and leading with dignity. He can be reached at harry@leadsellgrow.biz for consulting, speaking, or media opportunities.
Harry can be reached for coaching, consulting, keynotes, and media appearances via the links provided below!
Links:
https://sellingwithdignity.com/
LinkedIn - Harry Spaight
Instagram
Motivation Champs - Harry Spaight
Selling With Dignity - Amazon
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EPISODE 4
Welcome back to Living The Next Chapter, the podcast! We are pleased to introduce you to an author in the making, Tony Saunders!
ABOUT TONY
Two-time Emmy Award winning bassist, composer, producer and son of legendary San Francisco Bay Area keyboardist, Merl Saunders, Tony Saunders’ life has been infused with one musical adventure after another. As an arranger, producer, composer and performer, Saunders has conquered the worlds of jazz, gospel, R&B, pop, rock and world music.
He earned the first of his two Emmys at age 14 for collaborating with his dad on the PBS documentary Soul Is and by 17 was playing with Merl and Jerry Garcia on their collaborative projects. The second was earned for his contribution on the TV show, Digital Journey, on the episode, “China: Their New Digital Economy.”
Though he took one of his first musical lessons on piano from Herbie Hancock, the bass he received from John Fogerty’s brother Tom – and watching recording sessions with famed bassists Anthony Davis and Lee Miles - sparked a lifelong passion for that instrument that now, 50 years later, has led to his emergence as a major independent force in contemporary jazz.
After launching his career with his dad Merl and Jerry Garcia, Saunders embarked on a diverse career that has found him playing and recording with a virtual who’s who of popular music and jazz – including Eric Clapton, David Crosby, Dave Liebman, Les McCann, Dr. John, Joe Sample, Chaka Khan, Ringo Star, Bo Diddley, Mavis Staples, John Lee Hooker, The Hawkins Family, Jeff Lorber and Paul Jackson Jr. Over the years, Tony has scored films, corporate videos, TV shows and commercials, and produced many artists out of his own studio, Studio 1281. He’s written the music and been musical director for stage musicals, including Rock Justice, which was co-written by Jefferson Starship’s Marty Balin.
Hear about the upcoming book Behind The Bass Lines due out early this year, Tony Shares some great stories and we talk about February as Black History Month and what that means to him and where are we headed in the future.
Visit: https://www.tonysaunders.com/ for more about Tony, his upcoming book and the musical legacy that he continues to advance today!
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EPISODE 03
Please welcome Dominick Domasky to the Living The Next Chapter Podcast!
Dominick Domasky is an inspirational author, YouTube host, sales expert, and the founder of the inspiration sharing and publishing platform Motivation Champs.
Dominick is the author of the inspirational books,
- The Journey of a Grunt
- Don’t Double Bread the Fish,
and creator and co-author of the hit books
- The Unofficial Guide to Fatherhood - Go Ask Your Dad.Recently, he released the hard-hitting eBook How to Write a Book in 2020 and immediately it became a Bestseller on Amazon. Dominick’s greatest accomplishments are his two children, and he aspires to be the best husband and father he can be.
Dominick arrived at inspirational story writing and motivational speaking with a unique background. As a boy, Dominick learned the value of hard work pulling weeds and doing odd jobs in the fields of his father’s landscape company. He took those lessons of hard work and placed them into his passions, and carried it throughout every aspect of his life from basketball to business.
There is no bond more unbreakable than the unconditional love between a mother and child. My Name is Sharonchronicles the pain a family feels when their mother's advanced memory loss collides with a global pandemic. This timeless love story attempts to put a face on Alzheimer's Disease and explain the grief and guilt felt by the families quietly mourning the loss of the living. The loss of a loved one is never easy; however, we attempt to find comfort in the special memories we have shared together. My Name Is Sharon is a journey through a collection of precious family memories. We meet the kindest of spirits and uncover the deep connection between Dominick and his mother and learn why this beautiful soul will be remembered as far more than a victim of disease.
Links:
https://www.motivationchamps.com/profile/
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https://livingthenextchapter.com/
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EPISODE 2
Cliff Ravenscraft hosted a room recently on the social audio app Clubhouse recently. I was invited up on stage to ask some questions about podcasting.
I wanted Cliff's response to my question on how he prepares as a podcast host and as a podcast guest - interview tips and suggestions.
Cliff shared this link in response
https://mindsetanswerman.com/22-tips-for-better-podcast-interviews/
He pulled out a couple nuggets from this list to share with me in response to my questions.
Cliff shares from his rich history in the podcasting arena with some very practical suggestions that you can apply in your own life regardless of whether you host a podcast or not - you can use these tips in your every day life, with your boss, in your relationships and daily interactions. Be a better presenter and a better listener with these practical tips from Cliff Ravenscraft right here on the Living My Side Hustle Podcast!
Share the Easter egg hidden at the end of this podcast!!
Links:
https://www.clubhouse.com/
https://www.cliffravenscraft.com/
Produced by:
https://truemediasolutions.ca/
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EPISODE 01
Living The Next Chapter Book Review: Talk Triggers by Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin
Talk Triggers is the definitive, practical guide on how to use bold operational differentiators to create customer conversations, written by best-selling authors and marketing experts Jay Baer and Daniel Lemin.
Word of mouth is directly responsible for 19% of all purchases, and influences as much as 90%. Every human on earth relies on word of mouth to make buying decisions. Yet even today, fewer than 1% of companies have an actual strategy for generating these crucial customer conversations. Talk Triggers provides that strategy in a compelling, relevant, timely book that can be put into practice immediately, by any business.
Has anyone ever suggested a show to binge on a streaming channel to you? A must-see movie? A song to Add To Your Spotify Playlist? When you know, like and trust someone you are more apt to follow through on their recommendation because you both know, like and trust each other! It happens every day - and it should - if you have a business, if you are an artist, musician or creator of anything really - you want people to talk about you and what you do, even when you are not in the room! What you do and who you are should trigger talk, conversation and interest - commercials are always looking to sell us on something - the words of a friend have power!
Are you an author or publisher? No matter where you are on your literary journey we would love to help share your passion with our audience!
Contact us at https://livingthenextchapter.com/ and let us help you share your work with others!
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