Episodes

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Saturday, September 17, 2022, Shashikala Shanmugasundaram “Shashi”. Shashi is an experienced architect and a seasoned project manager who has led iconic developments in Singapore to successful completion. Prior to embarking on the journey of becoming an author, she was the Senior Vice President of a reputed hospitality group in charge of construction projects across South East Asia and Australasia. She was retrenched in De...

Stories That Inspire Us / The Author Series, welcomed to today’s podcast, Thursday, September 15, 2022, Rita Desnoyers-Garcia. Rita has been helping people reach their true potential for over 30 years. She has a BA in Psychology from College of the Holy Cross and an MSSW from Columbia University. After a long career as a social worker in New York City, and while raising her family, she had a spiritual transformation. She is now a spiritual teacher, speaker, life coach, and author, comedian and ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Wednesday, September 14, 2022, Sarah Thomas. Sarah is a personal trainer, fitness instructor, nutrition coach, business mentor, wife, mom of three and the founder and CEO of Burn Fat and FEAST, a lifestyle program for women who feel stuck and frustrated with weight loss and overall well being. Burn Fat and FEAST provides a proven, step-by-step system that educates and empowers women to finally shed the excess weight, increase metabolism and st...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast on this Monday, September 5, 2022, Amanda Love. Amanda is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and host of the podcast “Physical Emotional Health Secrets with Amanda Love”. (This is Amanda’s 2nd appearance on the “Stories” podcast. Her first podcast was on June 20, 2022.) Amanda has a long history of illness (she was basically ill for most of her life) which culminated with the diagnosis of Fibromyalgia at the age of 20 in 2010. This not only fi...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast Tuesday, August 30, 2022, Jessica Harrington. Jessica is a Speaker, and Stress Management Coach. She is the Owner / CEO of Journey to Yourself. Through her career and education, she realized that we all have a common issue - everyone, at some point or another, struggles with handling stress. (Jessica is what I refer to as a “repeat offender” - this is a term of endearment as she is such a gem and this is her 2nd appearance on the “Stories” podc...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to this today’s podcast, Nadia Kauss. Nadia is the author of "The Magic of Transformation - Igniting & Manifesting your Soul's Desires". Her passion for Soul Health & Divine self-expression comes alive when she is able to take her clients through a Soul Realignment Power Retrieval Process. She approaches this from a holistic side. Coming from a corporate background, Nadia worked as a health coach but she always felt this pull to do something more. When the pande...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to this today’s podcast, Carolyn Ferrick. Carolyn is the Podcast Host & Founder of The Search For Serotonin. Carolyn has been living with severe high functioning anxiety and clinical depression for most of her life, and she is still navigating managing both every day. Carolyn has also been diagnosed with OCPD, which is a perfectionism personality disorder, and is more common than OCD. From trauma, denial, and suicide attempts, to therapy, healing and happiness, ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to this today’s podcast, Gary Martinez, Jr. Gary is a Single dad to his two children: Cristian and Monica. His daughter Monica, is Autistic. Gary learned early on in his quest to adapt to the lifestyle of being a busy single Dad that he first and foremost had to make his self-care a priority. If that meant getting up extra early, he did that. He was also faced with the uncertainty of communicating with his daughter. She did not speak and could not communicate wi...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to this today’s podcast, Emily Hart. Emily is a small business owner with a background in business efficiency and process improvement. She has extensive experience in healthcare, coaching personal empowerment and interpersonal skill development, as well as energy work. She was my previous podcast guest on “Stories” on June 3, 2022. Today, we focused on the very sensitive part of her story of overcoming childhood trauma of sexual abuse, at a very young age. Emi...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Jessica Harrington. Jessica is a Speaker, and Stress Management Coach. She is the Owner / CEO of Journey to Yourself. Through her career and education, she realized that we all have a common issue - everyone, at some point or another, struggles with handling stress. Jessica worked in Public Health for many years before she started her business and saw first hand, in many difficult situations, how stress affected the physical and emotional wel...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Dr. Victoria Wilson-Crane. Dr. Wilson-Crane is an Advanced Grief Recovery Specialist, and supports adults grieving life losses. Educational innovator and leader, Dr. Wilson-Crane used her academic writing skills and love of words as therapy as she faced significant bereavements in 2020. In 2020, Dr. Wilson-Crane shared that she lost her niece at a very young age. She went through a different array of emotions and felt as though she was outsid...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Christi and Rick Diamond. Christi and Rick are both directors at Marriage Boot Camp (as seen on WETV) and have helped hundreds of couples heal and repair their marriages to create a lasting and solid connection with each other. As with many married couples, and especially for Christi and Rick, this was each of their respective 2nd marriages. Christi met Rick at a church dance and reported that “ . . . of all the guys that I danced with that n...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Daisy Paige. Daisy is a name that suits her well; her angelic smile, kind eyes, and welcoming southern accent with an honesty to show her pure and true identity through her very raw, emotional and authentic story. I had the honor and privilege to meet with Daisy prior to her podcast. I realized from her “guest registration” on my website, that I would definitely have her on as a guest. I sensed there was more to her story that was yet to be t...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Lynn Catalano. Lynn is an Author, Attorney, Speaker, Coach and survivor of narcissistic abuse. Lynn was an only child and recalls vividly that most memories of family gatherings, centered around her parents’ behavior toward one another. You would think that 2 + 2 = 4, however with her parents, it didn’t - that was a huge red flag. You see, Lynn realized at a very early age that her Father was not who she thought he was. Memories of her child...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Samantha Lander. (Please be advised that some strong language is used within the audio and video of this podcast - please do not listen or view this podcast in the presence of children or others who may be offended.) Samantha is a single Mom, personal trainer, functional diagnostic nutritionist who DJs on the side. She owns two businesses and has been her own boss for over 20 years. She’s raw, authentic and shares a very vulnerable side of he...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Ann Visser. Ann is the co-founder of 4 Better 4 Ever and a certified John Maxwell coach, speaker and trainer. For over 20 years, she has been empowering and equipping individuals and organizations to communicate clearly to build close connections because effective communication is essential for every healthy relationship. “It starts with our story.” Ann’s is no different. She fell in love with her soul mate; high school sweethearts. She pursu...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Janet White. Janet is a Registered Nurse and Certified Life Coach. She was in the health field for many years and then the pandemic came around and she lost her job. She started thinking “what do I want out of life?” She recalled her story thus far since that time: she was in a long term abusive marriage, had a bout with cancer, self-esteem / body issues coupled with a tremendous amount of grief. She had lost her Mom and shortly thereafter, h...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Ashley Jangro. Ashley is a former teacher (MA Ed.), Certified Life Coach, and most importantly, a Mom. She is the founder of Mentally Strong Moms, a group designed to help moms build the mental strength, learn the strategies, and get the support they need to raise mentally strong kids, even if their kids are struggling with mental wellness. Her story started back when her daughter was struggling with anxiety and depression (and unknown to Ash...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Lindsay Dunlap. Lindsay is a Teacher, Coach and Chief Sanity Officer. She truly has a very unique ability to intuitively listen to help guide her clients through their daily chaos and noise to keep them moving forward. Lindsay is also a farm wife and mother of 2. After her husband suffered a traumatic amputation in a farm accident in 2014, Lindsay poured her heart, soul and all her energy into keeping her family moving forward. And move forwa...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Maria Garcia. Maria is a survivor and by all means, “Genuinely Maria”. At the age of 25, Maria suffered a stroke that left her with the ability to only blink. The day she suffered her stroke, is a day she will always remember. She recalls hearing “white” noise; she was trying to say words but nothing was coming out. She was rushed to the hospital where she was eventually deemed non-responsive by the doctors. She physically was there but her h...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Amanda Karch. Amanda is a published poet and avid writer, continuing to hone her entrepreneurial skills from college through her path as an author. Her debut nonfiction book, "Poetic Potential: Sparking Change & Empowerment Through Poetry," was released in December of 2021 through New Degree Press. It is her hope to spread the power of poetry and of female voices to the world. Amanda shared that she has always loved writing and her inspi...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Melissa Miller. Melissa is a former Certified Nursing Assistant turned full time Online Business Owner and Stay At Home Mom and Spousal Caregiver. Melissa’s story began in 2019 when her husband suffered an epileptic seizure. (He had no prior history and the road to a diagnosis was a long and twisted journey. She describes her journey as throwing spaghetti to the wall.) In May, 2020, Melissa’s husband’s health started to rapidly decline from ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Kristy Baranovskis. Kristy is a certified Kitchen Confidence Coach, specializing in nutrition and meal prep. She works with moms to create simple, easy routines and meals in the kitchen so that they have less stress and more time in their day. From the time Kristy can remember, she struggled with food. Food was the center of her family gatherings growing up. Over time, food became a comfort and also what she turned to when she was bored. As s...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Monica Cox. Monica is a top Functional Fertility Coach and Infertility Warrior. She's a Functional Fertility Health Coach and supports women in finding the root cause of their fertility issues and becoming the conscious mother they were born to be! Monica’s infertility issues didn’t just happen overnight; her journey was long, emotional and heart-wrenching. Through a series of trials and tribulations, going through fertility treatments, then ...