Episodes

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, May 19, 2023, Doreen Padilla. Doreen is a Speaker and Author and the owner of Barking Beagle Books. She authored her first book, "Outsiders: A Journey to Belonging" which is the true story of a dreamer's long and arduous journey home. Her work as an author has helped tell the stories of dreamers in America. Part memoir, Doreen’s story of feeling as an outsider is not only her story, but the story of her husband, S...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, May 12, 2023, Tenya Eickenberg. Tenya is a certified life and self-care coach whose passion is to help women release their emotional baggage and direct their energies toward efforts to heal and regain strength, freedom, and happiness. Her unique approach to energy healing is an alternative method that deviates from conventional medicine or talk therapy and instead encourages individuals to nurture positive energy for healing to take pl...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, May 11, 2023, Sherrie Dunlevy. Sherrie is a former NBC News Anchor, Inspirational Speaker and the Founder of the Graduating Grief Academy, an online support community, as well as host of the podcast: Graduating Grief. She is also the Author of the #1 Best Selling Book: How Can I Help? / Your Go-To Guide for Helping Loved Ones Through Life’s Difficulties. How to support others in the simplest and kindest way poss...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, May 4, 2023, Philippa Robinson. Philippa is the Author of the Book: I See, Me. This is her 2nd appearance on “Stories”. Her 1st podcast was recorded on Thursday, October 14, 2022. In her book she shares very intimate and raw experiences she went through as a child and how these events have shaped her into the woman she is today. In many ways, this is her memoir of her experiences and “journey from less than to e...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, May 2, 2023, Alex Pin. Alex is a Parenting and Emotional Well-Being Coach for moms who want to be the mom they needed as a child. Alex created a Mom in the Jungle Community (coaching, books, podcast) after seeing and experiencing in her own personal life how investing in yourself can really change your life when you have the GPS to be and give the best and real to your children. At a very young age, Alex knew she...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Monday, May 1, 2023, Julie Zaruba Foutaine. Julie is the Founder of EMPOWER Possible, LLC, adjunct faculty at the University of Mary in Bismarck North Dakota, and a Well-Being Specialist at Essentia Health a regional healthcare system in the Midwest. Her philosophy is to be data-informed, deliberately collaborative, and strategically results-oriented so that she can deliver superior health and wellness initiatives, programs, and events that re...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, April 26, 2023, Dr. Debi Silber. Dr. Silber is the Founder of the PBT (Post Betrayal Transformation) Institute and is a holistic psychologist, a health, mindset and personal development expert, the author of Trust Again, and is a 2-time #1 International bestselling author of: The Unshakable Woman AND From Hardened to Healed. Her podcast: From Betrayal to Breakthrough is also globally ranked within the top 1.5% o...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, April 19, 2023, Lety Algeri. Lety is a Holistic Health Coach and the Founder of The Craving Crusher Method. She helps women break free from Emotional Eating and empowers them to create healthy relationships with food so they can feel amazing in their bodies and mind. Her holistic approach focuses on how the highs and lows of life affect our eating habits and overall health. Using her unique Food Therapy Techniques, Lety teaches sim...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, April 18, 2023, Gael Wood. Gael is a Coach, Entrepreneur and Author of the Book: Designing Your Dream Life Workbook (as well as several others!). She is also a massage and spa professional with over 25 years’ experience. She opened a day spa and massage center in 2003, and launched her first online business in 2013, then in 2016 she retired from hands-on massage to concentrate on creating online training, coaching...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Monday, April 17, 2023, Hope Reger. Hope is the Founder of her program / group, Grief 2 Hope. She is also the Author of the Book: Grief 2 Hope / A Mother’s Memoir of Devastation to Determination. “5 Seconds That Changed My Life Forever . . . “ From the knock at Hope’s door from (2) police officers on November 17, 2016 at 6:30am, Hope knew instinctively that this was no ordinary visit. She was handed a note with a name and...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, on Wednesday, April 12, 2023, Saras Naidoo. Saras is a Cancer Freedom Holistic Coach, empowering cancer women survivors to overcome their overwhelm, anxiety and stress, helping them through their daily challenges to find their joy again. Her clients transform from cancer survivors into becoming cancer warriors! Being a 9 year Breast Cancer warrior herself, she also was caregiver to her husband who was diagnosed with terminal kidney cancer two...

Stories That Inspire Us is excited to share this Post Podcast Chat concluding my podcast episode with Rose Gonzalez which was recorded on Thursday, February 23, 2023. Rose is a Mom of 4, a Grandmother and an entrepreneur. Rose and her husband have built their business as one of the Top 3% of Coldwell Banker Worldwide while balancing life. She went back into real estate in 2018 while holding down a full-time job and pregnant with her 4th child. In this just under 3-minute chat, I asked Rose (2) ...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, is excited to share this Post Podcast Chat concluding my podcast episode with Maurice F. Martin which was recorded on Thursday, March 2, 2023. Maurice is the Author of the Book: Your But is Too Big / 7 Principles That Empower You To Heal Past Hurts and Get Motivated To Find Your Purpose. His book hit #1 in (2) different categories: Christian Faith and Christian Counseling! He is also a sought after Speaker, Counselor, Spiritual Life Coach and Former C...

Stories That Inspire Us is excited to share this Post Podcast Chit Chat concluding my podcast episode with Kristine Schroeder which was recorded on Wednesday, February 8, 2023. Kristine is a small business owner of a Virtual Assistant business, Schroeder Administrative Solutions. Before she began the journey of entrepreneurship, she had to overcome the demons of her past. To say that was a learning journey is an understatement. She came to realize that it was not her fault for many of the thing...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, April 7, 2023, The Fab Four: Dr. Barb Hughson, Dr. Wayne Benenson, Chris Barry and Lisa Johnson. A little bit about each of my amazing guests: Dr. Barb Hughson - Dr. Barb has been involved in education and learning for over 25 years. She has been an entrepreneur offering courses in parenting, a mediator for families, and a therapist for children and adolescents. Dr. Wayne Benenson - Dr. Wayne has been teaching for over 50 years and h...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, April 4, 2023, Megs Thompson. Megs is a professional word-twerker, intuitive writing coach, ghostwriter, author & publisher based in the heart of Montana. After spending 20+ years trying to fit into someone else's box in the corporate world, afraid of what could happen if she swam against the current, Megs decided to leave her health insurance, paid vacation & regular paychecks behind to start her own business, f...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, March 31, 2023, Natasha Sharma. Natasha is an Author, Speaker, and Mentor. Her expertise is guiding people to cure themselves of physical diseases by exploring the metaphysical connection of the mind-body-soul to the said illness. Her passion is Money and Manifestation and her mission in life is to have conversations about death and use that inevitability to free people to enjoy their lives now. She believes that ...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, March 30, 2023, Tiffany Obeng. Tiffany is a lawyer and author of several educational and inspiring children's picture books. Tiffany creates books featuring Black children and families in spaces where they have historically been absent. Inspired by her son Andrew’s inquisitive nature to learn more about dinosaurs, her books are structured to feature Black child characters in normal everyday situations. However, ...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Tuesday, March 28, 2023, Suzanne Culberg. Suzanne is an international mindset coach and speaker, and Nope Coach, who helps over-givers and people pleasers learn to say ‘No’ to others in a way that feels good, so that they can say ‘Yes’ to themselves. Suzanne is also the Author of the book: The Beginning is Sh*t / An Unapologetic Weight Loss Memoir. Sometimes with every story that needs to be told, the beginning is certain...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Saturday, March 25, 2023, Kellina Powell. Kellia is best known as the Deaf Queen Boss! She is a young entrepreneur who loves to help people with their personal growth and educate others about the deaf community. At the age of 4, she lost 100% hearing in both ears. She started her journey to overcome many challenges living in a hearing world. Nothing stopped Kellina, literally nothing! Kellina always knew she was meant to...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Friday, March 24, 2023, Katja Rusanen. Katja is a #1 best-selling author, transformational story coach, and spiritual mentor with master’s degrees in Spiritual Psychology and Spiritual Science. Her pragmatic approach, combined with her spiritual awareness, helps her clients get results fast. With over 10 years of coaching experience, Katja helps purpose-driven coaches and healers overcome their limiting inner stories so th...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, March 23, 2023, Dr. Amber Tichenor, PhD. Dr. Tichenor has a Ph.D. in I/O Psychology and is the founder of To Be, Coaching + Consulting®. A thought leader on the topic of women’s rivalry, Amber has 20+ years’ experience as an Organizational Change Strategy and Leadership consultant where she helped guide businesses through transformational change. She is also the author of her Book: Behind Frenemy Lines: Rising Ab...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, March 22, 2023, Becca Pearce. Becca is a survivor in more ways than one. A young professional CEO in her 30’s, at the top of her career, Becca was announced as the first CEO of a state-based health exchange in the country, tasked with implementing Obamacare by October 1, 2013. By 2013, The Baltimore Sun announced her resignation amidst controversy. On April 14, 2015, she was diagnosed with a golf-ball-sized brain tumor, changing he...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Saturday, March 18, 2023, Sam Perez. Sam is a television news reporter who loves telling and sharing stories. This passion led her to the University of Georgia, where she graduated with degrees in journalism and Spanish. Sam is also the Author of the Book: Deviate From Denial / Erasing the Stigma of Addiction and Recovery through Inspirational Stories. (This is Sam’s 2nd appearance; her 1st appearance on “Stories” was Octo...