Episodes

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Karen Hewitt. (Warning: the Topics discussed in today’s podcast can be triggering and detailed - not suitable for young viewers or listeners!!!!!) Karen is a certified Life and NLP Coach as well as a successful, multifaceted entrepreneur. She is an “Introvert” as well as a Business Coach and the Unfuckable Bad Ass Bitch Owner / CEO of Blossom to Success. She shares her story and her gifts in an empathic and authentic way to help others. Disc...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Page Park. Page is the Owner / Teacher and Mentor of Tulsi Rose Yoga, and helps people reconnect with themselves and express their grief through yoga, movement, breath work, and mediation. She creates a space where clients can get in touch with their inner voice and listen to their bodies to tune in to personal needs, desires. Page taught for 24 years as a classroom teacher, and explored ways to reach students and studied yoga completing her ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to yesterday’s podcast (Saturday, July 2, 2022), Chichi Choolwe Musonda ”ChiChi”. ChiChi was born in 1995 in Zambia southern province monze Africa, and is the founder of Celecho Orphanage limited Zambia. (I had the amazing opportunity to connect with ChiChi through Clubhouse in the Evermindful Clubhouse room. I was immediately drawn to her story to share it with others!) ChiChi ended up leaving home at a very young age - 14 years old. While this decision did not...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Lucie Rosa-Stagi. Lucie is an Online Business Mentor for Seniors. When Lucie turned 70, she found herself in a position where she had to restart her life as a single person. She decided to start an online business that would bring her extra income and allow her to spend her days meaningfully. As with starting any new endeavor, she spent a couple of years learning and trying things that didn't give her any results. She had very limited tech sk...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Betsy Wurzel. Betsy is a retired LPN and Teacher's Aide. She has extensive experience in advocating and caring for others. Betsy took care of her mother-in-law who had Alzheimer's. Betsy’s Dad had Alzheimer’s. Betsy’s husband, at the age of 56, came down with early onset Alzheimer’s. (Her husband passed away 10 years later at the age of 66.) Betsy had never heard the word, Alzheimer's! (Alzheimer’s is the #6 disease that kills too many in the...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Carolyn Birrell. Carolyn is the author of the book: WALKING WITH FAY - a Memoir About Dementia. Carolyn Birrell retired to North Idaho after having spent 20 years in Atlanta, GA, as a real estate agent. Soon after her move, she relocated her aging mother to be near her and spent the next eight years caring for her while learning “all things dementia.” What began as a written collection of her mother’s difficult behaviors during dementia’s ear...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Amanda Love. Amanda is a Registered Holistic Nutritionist and host of the podcast “Physical Emotional Health Secrets with Amanda Love”. She coaches and educates women on how to cook simple but delicious allergy-friendly healthy meals and to integrate a holistic approach through mind, body, and spirit. 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 a...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Jennifer Henry. Jennifer is the founder of Lifestyle Recovery Solutions. She is also certified as a Personal Trainer, Health Coach, Life Coach, Master Transformation Coach (NLP), Functional Nutrition Coach, Fitness in Recovery Coach and a Lifestyle Recovery Coach. Jenn’s history of addiction began at an early age. She did not hold back any detail of her story. She became addicted to meth and this started an outrageous cycle of further addicti...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Hannah Jefferson. Hannah is an intuitive healer (Acupuncturist / Reiki practitioner and life coach) devoted to empowering others to reconnect with their bodies, speak from the heart, and step bravely into the healthiest versions of themselves. Hannah applies a blend of these (3) modalities. She mentioned that it’s taking the pieces of the puzzle and implementing these different modalities to work effectively with one another. Hannah stated th...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Ellen Elizabeth. Ellen is a wellness influencer, author, sober twin mom, recovery advocate, and infertility warrior. She has (5) years of sobriety and has dealt with infertility issues for years. She loves to work with women who are dealing with the struggles and the shame that comes from feelings of inadequacy; not only feeling like they can't quit drinking but also not being able to bring a child into the world. She inspires them with radic...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s podcast, Stephanie Duesing. Stephanie is the author of "Eyeless Mind: A Memoir About Seeing and Being Seen." In January of 2017, she discovered that her straight A honor student, genius artist, and water-polo playing son Sebastian was almost completely blind and no one knew, not even Sebastian himself. He was fifteen and just about to enroll in driver's education. Her family was devastated and terrified for her son's safety. Stephanie and her husband ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today’s Podcast, Stormy King. Stormy is “the” Destiny Creator. She is a NLP Practitioner, Reiki Master, Shaman Practitioner, Motivational Speaker, Author, and Spiritual Entrepreneur, with over 20 years experience. Stormy is a multi-hyphenate mindset coach who rose from the ashes of a traumatic childhood. She was born to a drug addict Mother and raised in 28 foster care homes by the age of 10. Being a product of the foster care system, growing up she felt the ...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to 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. Emily shared her very raw and vulnerable story overcoming childhood trauma of sexual abuse, at a very young age. This traumatic experience ultimately plagued her with chronic illnesses most of her li...

Stories That Inspire Us with Janis welcomed to today's podcast, Corbie Mitleid. Corbie is a full-time intuitive counselor and inspirational speaker, with a globe-spanning career and clients worldwide. Her talents as an intuitive are featured in bestselling books. Still, her clients treasure her attitude of I’m not special, you can do what I do. She is the author of (3) books and in today's episode, we only scratched the surface on her book, Clean Out Your Life Closet. In her book, Corbie stat...

Stories That Inspire Us welcomed to today's Podcast, Shikha Khanna. Shikha is portrait photographer from India (for over 35 years.) She is presently heading a global movement of bringing a coffee table book called 100 self portrait / 100 dreams in which Shikha is sharing the stories of 100 Mothers from across the world where they are expressing their stories through self portraits. As with things that transpired in the pandemic, Shikha realized that she had a vision she could not ignore. It was...

Stories That Inspire Us was so happy to have back on today for Part 2, Yamile McBride. She was my first guest on this past Friday, May 13th and unfortunately on my end, the Internet God's were not in my favor - Yamile was absolutely wonderful and continued the conversation and this morning she was able to come back on and share her story. After almost four decades of overworking, overthinking and over drinking she was taken down by a student who ultimately saved her life. Yamile McBride is a m...

Stories That Inspires Us with Janis welcomed her first guest, Yamile McBride. Yamile is a Results Trainer, Speaker, Author, Mom of 5 and is unschooling and manifesting! After experiencing childhood trauma and abuse she became everything she desired by retraining her subconscious mind starting 8 months after the assault by first walking on fire, defying the odds, reclaiming her flame and now helps thousands to tap into their own genius within by eliminating anxiety and unconscious limiting belief...

There are defining moments in our lives that if we don’t take those first steps, we may never know what would have been. What about the times that we have found ourselves in the thick of it, not of our own doing? I know what you may be thinking - okay great, what exactly does she mean? I believe we are meant to do and be something more; perhaps more than we thought and it’s during the tumultuous times in our lives where the “shitay” hits the fan. I could write a novel on this subject as I guess...