Episodes

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series welcomed to my podcast (Episode #138) on Saturday, April 13, 2024, Katrina McGhee. Katrina is a Certified Life Coach and the Author of the Book: Taking A Career Break for Dummies. Her book is absolutely phenomenal and receives my 20 Star review! Stunning how she turned a 20-month break to travel the world into a life changing career. This ultimately led her to create a blueprint to help her clients create fail-proof plans and navigate successful break...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to the podcast on Tuesday, April 9, 2024 (Episode #137), Dr. Audrey Birnbaum. Audrey is the Author of the\ book: American Wolf: From Nazi Refugee to American Spy, a true story of her father, Jack Wolf Schwersenz, his family's nail-biting escape from Germany, and his subsequent adventure-filled efforts to embrace his adopted home. As soon as I started reading Audrey’s book, I was mesmerized and immersed in a time that I’ve only read about in ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to the podcast on Saturday, April 6, 2024, Episode #136, Kimberly Parker. Kimberly is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Revive to Thrive Wellness Center, a group practice dedicated to meeting the needs of Texas residents. As a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor (LCDC), and Transformative Coach, Kimberly brings a wealth of expertise in trauma, anxiety, depression, addiction, life transitions, and self-esteem improvemen...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, March 20, 2024 (Episode #135), Aeoliana Elliott. Aeoliana is a podcast strategist, wife, hockey mom, former paralegal and an avid learner. Aeoliana has a passion for helping female podcasters go from being clueless about strategies to grow their podcasts aka frazzled, to having a far reaching podcast where they can share their heart and unique message, all while maintaining that crucial balance at home and avoiding burnout aka dazz...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Susan Ball. Susan is a Domestic Violence Survivor, Abuse Recovery Mentor, Lived Experience Speaker, and Passionate Advocate who has transformed the most terrifying and painful experience of her life into a powerful gift to mentor and inspire women to live free, fulfilled, and unapologetically. Susan’s story from victimhood to forgiveness left no stone unturned. She shared her story from a perspective that unfortunately many women go through b...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to the “Stories” podcast on Thursday, February 22, 2024, Stephany Ann. Stephany is an attorney, recipient of the governor's award for advocacy with survivors of domestic violence, and an International Best Selling author who triumphed over narcissistic abuse. Stephany Ann’s “why me” to “for me” was the driving force of a woman who with two failed marriages to narcissists came to a point in her life where she “didn’t know” to “how do you detox”. Her heartfelt wor...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Saturday, February 10, 2024, sKatie Selby. Katie is a young lady with a language impairment and learning disabilities. She was diagnosed with a language impairment at the age of three and with learning disabilities at the age of five. As Katie eloquently describes, she is the only person in her immediate and extended family who lives with a disability. She has a heart of gold and her sincerity to share with others is inspiring to say the leas...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, August 17, 2023, Dr. Robert Wolf. Dr. Wolf is a National Speaker and Author of his new book "Not a Real Enemy: The True Story of a Hungarian Jewish Man's Fight for Freedom" along with Janice Harper, which just won (3) awards! The book details the remarkable story of his family's history that follows his Jewish parents and grandparents first living under the Nazis, and then under the communist regime in Hungary. I...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, August 10, 2023, Rita Ernst. Rita is an organizational effectiveness consultant, executive coach, speaker, writer and Owner / CEO of Ignite Your Extraordinary, an organizational consulting practice emphasizing the convergence of happiness and productivity to create positive, committed, high-performing organizations. She is also the Author of the Book: Show Up Positive. I “truly” was riveted when I read Rita’s bo...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, August 2, 2023, Edmund A. Rossman, III. Ed has been in the libraries and broadcasting industry since 1980. Ed has also been a business manager of radio stations in (2) major markets. He is also the Author of the Book: "A Guy's Guide to Throat Cancer". A personal story of the Do’s and Don'ts of Recovery (the subtitle of Ed’s book) and how Ed’s 50 / 50 % chance of survival put him on a path of self-reflection and s...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Monday, July 31, 2023, Terri Kozlowski. Terri is a certified life coach, blogger, and the Author of the book: "Raven Transcending Fear," which recently won the FireBird Award from SpeakUp Talk Radio in the Memoir category! Read the press release here: https://www.pr.com/press-release/891774 She is also the Founder of Soul Solutions. She specializes in empowering women by teaching them to set personal boundaries, r...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, July 26, 2023, Marjie Hadad. Marjie is an international public relations expert, the general manager of Must Have Communication & Consulting, an author, an award-winning TV producer, as well as a coach and a speaker on how to apply public relations strategies to parenting, life and careers. Marjie is the Author of the Book: The Power of PR Parenting / How to Raise Confident, Resilient, and Successful Children Us...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, July 20, 2023, Lyn Delmastro-Thompson. Lyn is a certified hypnotist, energy healer, and entrepreneur for the past 13 years. Lyn is also the Author of the Amazon Best Seller, You Are Not Your Diagnosis. This is my 3rd time having the pleasure and honor of interviewing Lyn. She was a guest on the podcast I co-host with my sister, TwoSistas, on her solo podcast on March 13, 2023 and a few days later on the celebrat...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, Sarah Duran (Episode #125). Sarah is a freelance project manager, consistent six-figure freelancer, and solopreneur coach. She started her company, Fruition Initiatives, to help people and organizations turn their ideas into action – to bring their goals to fruition. Sarah is also the Author of the Book: How to Start a Business of One / Instant Freelancer / The Shortest Path to Independent Work an...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, Eleni Fuiaxis (Episode #124.) Eleni is an Educator, Entrepreneur, SAG Actress/Model and Mother 2. Eleni is also the Author of the children’s book Series “The Kids We Love Collection”: Picky Patrick. As a very busy Mom, Eleni recognized the importance of the connection with her children and one thing that her two sons loved were the stories that she would share with them. Eleni explained that as a...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, June 21, 2023, Jackie Dighans (Episode #123). Jackie is a Covenant Life Coach. She loves helping people align with the covenant of God, throw off weights and sin, and forget the past so they can run their race and reach toward the goal of the high call of God. She is also the Author of the Book: Covered / Living in triumph while going through trials. Sometimes there are more questions than answers when going th...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, June 20, 2023, Allyza Shaine (Episode #122) Allyza is a Business Mentor & Women’s Health Advocate dedicated to helping you secure the wealth legacy in your lineage. She believes that generational poverty can end with us and it is your birthright to be unapologetically wealthy. We have the power to break that chain and change the narrative for our descendants. In more ways than one, Allyza has taken the oath of becoming the chain brea...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, June 16, 2023, John Sovec (Episode #121). John is a nationally recognized expert on creating affirmative support for LGBTQ teens and their families during the coming out process. He is the clinical consultant for The Life Group LA, adjunct faculty at Phillips Graduate Institute and guest lecturer at Alliant University, Antioch, Cal State Fullerton, and USC School of Social Work. John is currently a member of the Ca...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Don Wardlow (Episode #120). Don is a Writer, Podcaster of The Baseball Lifer and baseball’s first blind broadcaster - YES - you heard that right! But first, before we dove into his amazing story, we shared our favorite baseball teams with each other. Needless to say, it boils down to the Red Sox vs Yankees - he is a “Yankees” fan and I am a “Red Sox” fan!! (The rivalry I am sure will continue!) As a young boy, he was introduced to baseball an...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, Vanessa Ciano Saracino (Episode #119). Vanessa is an Author, CEO, Influencer, Blogger and Fashion Designer for her faith based Christian line, Be*You*Tiful. She is also a 2/time International Best Selling Author - soon to be 3rd time with her new co-authored Book: Ignite Your Faith. Vanessa’s chapter in this book is a testament for the love and relationship with her Dad, Rocco Ciano, as well as t...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, June 14, 2023, Michal Stawicki (Episode #118). Michal is a bestselling author in the personal development field and a business coach. He is obsessed with changing the world through daily habits, starting with his own habits and his world. In the last decade, he published 19 books, sold over 84,000 copies, created dozens of new good habits, coached over 100 people in developing new habits, started a book advertis...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Episode #117, Thursday, June 8, 2023, Jamie Blanco. Jamie is a Journalist, Actor and Podcast Host and more importantly is a Co-Author of the Book along with her Dad, Jimmy Blanco, Hope for the Hopeless / How One Man Fought The World’s Deadliest Brain Tumor on His Terms and Won. Jamie was just nine-years-old when her father Jimmy got sick. Her Dad, Jimmy Blanco, was one of the longest living survivors of the world’s deadli...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Episode #116, Wednesday, June 7, 2023, Suzy Wood. Suzy is an Integrative Nutrition Health Coach and owner of True Wellness Within where she works with women to get control of their lives and their health after divorce. Her clients achieve their goals by addressing both food and lifestyle choices. The two most stressful events for many can be a divorce or the loss of a loved one. It is never easy and as Suzy explained as far as divorce goes, y...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, Angela Wilson. Angela is the Founder of Angela Unlimited. Angela coaches women from around the world, to examine and overcome mindsets that have been imposed on them (by others, or themselves) that are now limiting their lives. Living the stories that are created and receiving criticism, especially when Angela was growing up, she often felt that she was not good enough and interpreted that to mean t...