by admin | Oct 23, 2016
October 25th, 2016 – Brooke Warner, Publisher, is the founder and president of Warner Coaching Inc., where she specializes in helping writers get published. In her fourteen years in the publishing industry, including eight years as Executive Editor at Seal Press, Brooke has shepherded hundreds of books through the publication process. Brooke’s expertise is in traditional and new publishing, and she is a champion of all writers committed to making their dream of publishing a book a reality. Brooke mentors memoirists in her biannual course, Write Your Memoir in Six Months, and sits on the boards of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) as an executive board member; the National Association of Memoir Writers, and She Writes.
Her newest book is titled,Green-Light Your Book: How Writers Can Succeed in the New Era of Publishing.
She’s also the author of What’s Your Book? A Step-by-Step Guide to Get You from Inspiration to Published Author (She Writes Press, 2012) and How to Sell Your Memoir: 12 Steps to a Perfect Book Proposal (She Writes Press, 2013).
Listen to “Getting Published with Brooke Warner 10/25/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Oct 14, 2016
October 18th, 2016 – We’re all beginning to discover personal reasons why it’s so important to have a connection to pure consciousness.
Which is why Mark Romero’s music (demoed during our interview) is so important.
Science is backing claims that harmonized states of consciousness allow the body to connect to its innate intelligence, permitting it to better heal itself of the physical disharmony it might be experiencing.
Romero’s music is a conduit, and a way for us to rise above outside forces that negatively impact our energy, such as genetically modified food, wifi, and cell phone waves.
For lovers of music and seekers to new approaches to health, this is an interview you don’t want to miss.
Formal Bio:
Mark Romero is an internationally known High-Vibration Sound Healing Expert and Transformational Leader. Through his music, Mark is a channel for energy that eliminates negative influences in the environment and creates a field where we can operate at optimal levels. By eliminating the static and “noise” in our lives we can then effortlessly break free of the negative influences in our environment, and of the limiting thoughts, beliefs and perceptions that are holding us back from the life we truly desire. Mark has helped thousands of people experience instantaneous healings and shifts in their perceptions through the energy embedded in his music.
Mark’s website www.markromeromusic.com
Listen to “The Soundtrack to Personal Healing with Mike Romero 10/18/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Oct 7, 2016
October 11, 2016 – Entrepreneur, Thomas Sterner, realized as a senior in high school that his mind wouldn’t allow him to stay focus and finish the projects he started. Sound familiar?
That’s when his practice, as well as his multifaceted careers – that allowed him to start, experience, and finish many things – began.
Now he’s CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute and a popular speaker who’s addressing our hyperactive culture and the benefits of mindfulness meditation.
In our exciting interview, we talked about practice, choice, and the power gained in becoming the objective observer.
Formal Bio:
Thomas M. Sterner is the founder and CEO of The Practicing Mind Institute. As a successful entrepreneur, he is considered an expert in Present Moment Functioning or PMF tm. He is a popular and in-demand speaker who works with high-performance individuals including, athletes, industry groups and individuals, helping them to operate effectively within high-stress situations so that they can break through to new levels of mastery.
As an expert Present Moment Functioning Coach, Thomas has brought clarity to thousands regarding how they can accomplish more with less effort, in the least amount of time and with greatly reduced stress. Top media outlets such as NPR, Fox News, and Forbes have sought his advice. He is the author of the best seller The Practicing Mind (New World Library 2012).
Prior to founding The Practicing Mind Institute he served as the Chief Concert Piano Technician for a major performing arts center preparing instruments for the most demanding performances. During his 25 year tenure as a high-level technician, he personally worked for industry giants such as Van Cliburn, Pavarotti, Andre Watts, Ray Charles, Fleetwood Mac, Bonnie Raitt, Tony Bennett, Wynton Marsalis and many more. An accomplished musician and composer he has also worked in the visual arts and as a recording studio engineer.
In his down time, Tom is an accomplished musician, private pilot, an avid sailor and proficient golfer. He lives in Wilmington Delaware and enjoys spending time with his two daughters and in his recording studio.
Website: http://www.thepracticingmind.com
Listen to “Fully Engaging with Thomas Sterner 10/11/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Sep 30, 2016
October 4, 2016 – Debbie Elder’s bio reads that she’s a speaker, an educator, and an author, but to put it frankly – she’s a super hero.
She rewires the current education standards by helping her students uncover their learning – not by handing them their learning.
We all have an education story. For some, it’s rosy. For others, it’s hell on earth. And whatever your experience, it probably had a lot to do with the institutions you found yourself walled within.
Thankfully, we get to keep learning. And it’s people like Debbie that inspire us to be better students and better parents as we evolve our education ideology.
Learn how she does it in our interview. And carry the concepts forward in your own life, schools, and pedagogy.
Formal Bio:
Debbie Elder is the nation’s leader in motivating students to be peak performers! In September 2013, Debbie became a best-selling author. She co-authored a book with Brian Tracy titled Against the Grain. In June of 2014 Debbie’s second book Share Your Message with the World achieved international best seller status. Debbie became the owner and Director of Shady Oak Primary School in August 2014; this school serves grades 1 – 5 in Fort Bend County, Texas.
Her varied background has equipped her to deal with any child under any circumstance. While working at the Calgary Young Offender Center, in Alberta Canada, she ran the disciplinary unit that housed males between the ages of 12 – 18 who had committed very serious crimes.
As a therapeutic foster parent she raised teenage girls with severe behavioral issues. Debbie was named the Therapeutic Foster Parent of the year in 1993. After moving to Houston, Texas, Debbie worked as a substitute teacher at the local elementary school and spent two years teaching Pre-K.
In 2003 Debbie joined the Appelbaum Training Institute, ATI and traveled the country training behavior management techniques for the classroom. Debbie enjoyed speaking to audiences each week that welcomed 800 – 1200 teachers. She also ran a very unique after school program for students in grades 3
– 12. This particular after school program empowers kids of all ages to take ownership of their school work, develop success strategies and increase their level of self-awareness.
At the request of her clients Debbie opened a private school that serviced students in grade 6 – 12. This school taught to the ‘whole child’ using accelerated learning methods coupled with success strategies used by the top producers in Corporate America. The concept proved to be so well received that Debbie opened 14 additional schools across the country over the next 6 years.
In a continued effort to meet the needs of her students, Debbie practiced as a college planner. The unique process helped parents afford college and ensured the student was ready to be admitted and had the skills to complete college in a timely fashion.
In 2013, a former parent of one of Debbie’s students requested that she return to her after school program. He went on to explain to her the profound effect the program had on his family. He shared with Debbie that prior to her program he felt like the ‘Homework Police’ and spent way too much of his time badgering his son to finish his daily assignments. But when Alex had the opportunity to attend Set Them Up For Success – The Homework Hangout all that changed, he came home feeling successful and satisfied with the progress he had made and knowing that all of his homework was complete. Alex and his father enjoyed evenings together without any stress or bickering; family harmony was restored.
Debbie is the owner of the Set Them Up For Success franchise and is looking for passionate people who are ready to make a difference in the lives of the students in their area.
Contact Debbie Elder at www.SetThemUpForSuccess.com or 832.419.1455 if you are interested in learning more about this opportunity.
Debbie is a passionate international speaker who edutains her audiences. She loves to share her incredible knowledge in simple steps that can be implemented immediately. Her easy going style is loved and accepted by audiences of all ages. She has experience speaking to students, teachers, corporate America, entrepreneurs and people who want to be successful at life! She is the director of the Sugar Land chapter of the Public Speakers Association.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/debbie.elder1
Linkin: www.linkedin.com/pub/debbie-elder/72/867/500
Twitter: https://twitter.com/SetThemUp
Email: Debbie@SetThemUpForSuccess.com
Website: www.SetThemUpForSuccess.com
Phone: 832.419.1455
Listen to “Sharing Your Gifts with Debbie Elder10/04/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Sep 24, 2016
September 27, 2016 – The first sign you’re on autopilot is when you feel you don’t have a choice. OR when you entertain other choices – they don’t feel doable.
Sound familiar?
Executive Leadership Consultant, Sara Harvey Yao, joined us on the show to discuss one of the most elusive survival skills of busy people and how we can, as the title of her new book implies, “Drop in” to our lives.
This important interview is for those willing to question their own illusions and for anyone “too busy” to slow down.
Formal Bio:
Sara Harvey Yao is an Executive Leadership Consultant who specializes in helping leaders strengthen their presence and improve their impact.
She is the founder of Yao Consulting Group and has personally developed and trained more than 3,500 leaders across the globe. Companies eagerly invest in Sara’s expertise because she has an impeccable track record for helping leaders gain immense self-awareness, expand their influence and create a more compelling presence.
Sara’s coaching skills are favored by countless executives from leading companies, among them Microsoft, Coldwell Banker Bain and Coinstar and her work has been seen on CNBC, NPR Marketplace and King 5 News. She is the author of the book, Get Present: Simple Strategies to Get Out of Your Head and Lead More Powerfully.
Whether working one-on-one, as a facilitator, or engaging speaker, Sara is committed to guiding clients to clarity about behaviors, ego tactics, and influencing styles that hamper conscious leadership.
Listen to “Off of Autopilot with Sara Harvey Yao 09/27/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Sep 16, 2016
by Coach Debby
I have finally created time to write!! Unbelievable. It only took 50 years.
And now for the next dilemma; which book shall I write first? Will I begin with the memoir? Perhaps a book about the writers journey? Or best of all, the secrets your teacher never told you!
Since I can’t decide, I find myself moving back-and-forth between a few manuscripts. Today I was reflecting on a common “how to” question that students often asked in creative writing class: how do you finish a story without killing off the hero or doctoring the drama so that everyone lives happily ever after? For this question, I must lead writers back to the heroes journey, back to the moment where the hero brings home the elixir.
If you have studied Joseph Campbell’s, The Hero’s Journey, you know that all heroes (main characters) go flying back into a dramatic ordeal if they cannot embrace their learnings. It is as certain as the law of gravity. The ordeal awaits to anyone who cannot move forward by the act of selfless sharing.
Consider that in real life there are thieves who go to jail again and again, but at some point they learned their lesson, and they go on to live honest lives and share their wealth. Yet there is also the thief who can’t break the nasty habit, and for a screenwriter, this may lead to an epic mini-series as each ordeal (or robbery) is drawn out. Westerns are infamous for this pattern.
We’ve seen so many movies go awry because the director simply cannot part with the knee-jerk impulse to offer a cliche and happy ending. If you want your writing to be more subtle, it is essential that you find a way for the character to slowly embrace his new intelligence with just a few bumps, innocent scratches, and a lot of humor.
He can’t be perfect. He can’t be beautiful. He can’t be rich.
He must be humble. He must be accountable. He must be universal.
In other words, the story ends with him being an ordinary man. Perhaps the middle and the climax demonstrated heroic acts but the ending shows his simple moral coding. I remember Christopher Vogler’s example of King Aurthur where he spoke of the knights sharing the grail, “as otherwise there would be no healing.”
Above all, he must be able to serve those who can benefit from his knowledge without making himself so unbelievably special.
The heroes journey and how it applies to exceptional writing must stay away from the colossal expansion of the human ego. In fact, it is the writer’s job to show that the character has truly won the race by humbling himself, abandoning all notion of suicide or prestige, and becoming open to the greatest gift of all: selfless love. He shows he is grounded yet available to the human experience of every life he touches.
Do that, and you will sell millions.
by admin | Sep 16, 2016
September 20, 2016 – Abandonment is THE primal human emotion.
And no one explains this truism more eloquently than psychotherapist and bestselling author, Susan Anderson, whose life work has been to explore abandonment’s depths.
Her new book, The Abandonment Recovery Workbook is for everyone, those in and outside the thick of abandonment grief.
In this fantastic, information-loaded interview with Anderson, we learn WHY abandonment issues inevitably arise. WHY it is we leave relationships that are destructive emotionally only to find ourselves in another. HOW we can not play puppet to our own primal neurology.
The importance of answering such BIG questions is inadvertently stressed when we learn there are consequences to not dealing with our feelings: We leave the feelings behind and numb around the area of love and connection. Therefore, the only emotion we can feel is insecurity and rejection.
Formal Bio:
Psychotherapist and bestselling author, Susan Anderson, is a returning guest with a new book – The Abandonment Recovery Workbook. The founder of the Outer Child and Abandonment Recovery movements, Susan has devoted the past 30 years of clinical experience and research to helping people resolve abandonment and overcome self-sabotage
The word abandonment conjures up children left at birth, fathers packing up and moving out, sudden lovers betraying one another’s hearts, and sudden death.
But abandonment breaks our hearts in subtle ways, too, as when we are not recognized for our accomplishments, dismissed by a friend, or not invited to a party. It is a challenge that everyone must eventually face at one level or another.
In The Abandonment Recovery Workbook: Guidance through the Five Stages of Healing from Abandonment, Heartbreak, and Loss (New World Library, August 15, 2016), Anderson helps readers heal the wound of abandonment through a step-by-step process of personal recovery.
She guides them through the five stages of abandonment — shattering, withdrawal, internalizing, rage, and lifting — by offering practical tools and exercises designed to help them find greater life and love than ever before.
The Abandonment Recovery Workbook will help readers:
• Overcome the heartbreak caused by the loss of love
• Heal the underlying abandonment wound from past or present losses
• Build self-esteem and overcome fear of rejections
• Resolve issues of mistrust and insecurity
• Identify self-defeating behaviors of the outer child
• Make better choices and build new connections
Susan’s Websites www.abandonment.net and www.outerchild.net
Listen to “Abandonment Recovery with Susan Anderson 09/20/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Sep 9, 2016
September 13, 2016 – All parents are seeking ways to be better parents, and no one is out there to teach them.
But when it comes to parents’ involvement in extracurriculars, sports psychologist and team consultant, Jerry Lynch, has a few pointers.
On our September 13th episode, we discussed Jerry’s newest book, “Let Them Play,” a pertinent must-read for parents with children involved in athletics.
Jerry reminds us that it’s the child’s game – not the parents’. And though we cannot protect our children from loss, what we can show them, and possibly learn along with them, is that failure is one of our greatest teachers.
This episode with Jerry is full of wonderful advice and hard-won wisdom. His new book is receiving fantastic reviews in an era where school, performance, and athletics is a high-stakes, high-pressure game.
Formal Bio:
Sports psychologist and team consultant, Jerry Lynch, is the author of, “Let Them Play,” a book that provides an antidote to parental over-involvement in sports.
Few parents want to undermine their children’s athletic enjoyment and performance but that’s what they do when they fight with referees, yell at coaches, and lash out at fellow parents.
Jerry diagnoses this epidemic of parental over-involvement behavior as an attachment of their own egos to their kids’ performance.
The result is often kids losing interest in sports.
Dr. Lynch offers an alternative: parents participate by empowering their athletic kids and expertly addressing the child who doesn’t “make the cut.” Learn how to talk with coaches, detach from results, and help kids both work to excel and learn from failure.
As parents and coaches adopt Lynch’s core principles, kids are freed to do their best and, most importantly, feel their best.
Listen to “Over-involvement with Jerry Lynch 09/13/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Sep 4, 2016
September 6, 2016 – Did you know you have a better chance of accessing your Highest Self if you ask?
In this episode of Life Mastery Radio, Maureen St. Germain takes us through a daily exercise that can strengthen the connection to our Highest Self.
We discuss the questions that never really seem to get answered – like what IS our Highest Self? And how do we know when it’s speaking to us?
Formal Bio:
Maureen is the founder of Transformational Enteprises, Inc, 1994; Her lifelong interest in the Higher Consciousness led to the development of simple techniques to access your own Higher Self. While working in the Akashic Records, access to dimensions that have been closed to most of humanity for eons was granted. She uses this knowledge to support her clients and friends.
Widely known for her Amazon.com best-seller, Beyond the Flower of Life, Maureen has been sharing knowledge she has gained from her years of teaching meditation and research on ancient truths. Labeled a modern day mystic in Famous Wisconsin Mystics, Maureen has taught in 15 countries throughout Europe, Canada, USA, Egypt, China and Japan. Her books have been translated into Russian, Italian and Chinese.
Her Manifestation book, Be A Genie teaches Sacred Geometry and manifestation, based on Source Code and her discovery of the Phoenix Sequence. Her clients love her velvet voice in her many guided meditations on topics such as the MerKaBa, Letting Go, Manifestation and more.
Insightful, compassionate, entertaining and funny, her primary focus is developing tools to support individuals in their personal expansion and spiritual awakening through Trainings, Akashic Records, Sacred Journeys, guided meditation CDs, AroMandalas® essential oils aromatherapy and books.
Maureen’s website http://www.maureenstgermain.com
Link to her newest book on Amazon
Listen to “Connecting to Your Higher Self with Maureen St. Germain 09/06/16” on Spreaker.
by admin | Aug 26, 2016
August 30, 2016 – All of our problems seem to stem from our inability to sit in a room alone.
This adage is one Peter Sterling has always innately understood, as he possesses a remarkable ability to follow his inner voice.
Peter Sterling’s story is an example of what our lives could be like, should we choose to tune in and know the impulses of our own mind.
Our interview showcases Peter’s journey to answer his calling, as well as samples of his melodious harp music.
Formal Bio:
Celebrated Harpist Peter Sterling’s life is a reminder to all who offer themselves as an open vessel for the Divine, that there’s no stop button once Spirit unleashes its creativity. Peter’s response to his heavenly calling 25 years ago, blossomed into an endlessly-creative multi-media career, spanning 16 studio albums, numerous Music Awards, a book called Hearing the Angels Sing, and an impressive series of crystal- frosted Mandala art prints enough to fill a gallery. Peter also creates sacred geometry Stained Glass art, and presents dynamic workshops on the science of sound healing & sacred geometry.
Success came quickly for Peter, when the music label “World Disc” released his first album Harp Magic which was nominated in 1994 for NAIRD’s (now A2IM) Best String Album Award. In 2004 Sterling’s album Hap Dreams sat at the top of New Age Radio’s Top 100 for 8 weeks and garnered a Album of the Year nomination. In 2005 peter signed on with renowned new age music label Real Music to release his Shadow,Mist and Light cd. Peter’s self released 2008 effort The Sands of Time earned a nomination for a Hollywood Music Award for Best New Age Album. His 2012 release Patterns of Reflection soared to #1 on the ZMR 100 International Radio chart, also grabbing a nomination for Album of the Year. The very next year his album Twilight Serenade ascended to the #1 position on the ZMR Chart, while the track entitled “Isle of Light” recently earned a Bronze medal in the Global Music Awards for 2016.
With thousands of worldwide fans, Internet-radio airplay streaming constantly around the globe, and a Vibrational Healing series of albums, Peter says his 16th studio album Sacred Visions is a different kind of benchmark: it encapsulates his life experience in the legendary red rock paradise of Sedona,Az. The album also celebrates the coming together of familiar talents on this rhythmic contemporary gem, bursting with danceable world beats and infectious multi-cultural grooves. Blending the accompaniment of studio whizzes Bruce Becvar, Robin Miller, and Fitzhugh Jenkins, along with popular New Age / Smooth Jazz artists Hans Christian, William Aura, and Third Force, it is every bit healing and reflective (as Peter’s fans have come to expect), as it is pure joy. Sacred Visions will likely make your body irresistibly move and groove!
While some musicians are classically trained from childhood, others are guided to their destiny later in life. It took 33 years of living before Peter heard the still small voice while working in the high altitudes of the Rocky Mountains as a ski instructor in Aspen. Soon Peter couldn’t shake the notion that he was meant to devote his life to art and become a creative channel for Divine inspiration. Sedona beckoned, and Peter heeded the call without hesitation.
Exploring Sedona’s remote canyons daily, and living out of his trusty van, Peter followed every Divine hunch and inspiration as a free-spirited seeker. The Celtic Harp serendipitously entered his life on a fateful day in Sedona as an answer to a prayer on how best to fulfill his unique life purpose. Now toting his harp with him everywhere he went, Peter surrendered himself completely, allowing Grace to unfold through him amidst Sedona’s epic scenery and energy vortices. Having only a few lessons under his belt from the seller of the Celtic Harp, the Angels took over, guiding Peter’s hands and causing them to move masterfully within a few short months. No one was more surprised than Peter, whose skill-level demonstrated that of a virtuoso rather than a mere beginner.
Peter felt inspired to make drastic changes to his diet and lifestyle, switching to vegetarian “living” foods and immersing himself in healing treatments to upgrade his physical and energetic bodies through shamanic, chiropractic,energy healing and herbal treatments. With his newfound inner attunement, the Angels continued to reach Peter’s inner ear with heavenly sound transmissions, a sound which many mystics have called “the Music of the Spheres.”
Little did Peter know that one day his angelic music would garner testimonials from around the world for its miraculous healing effects: softening the hearts of the dying at the moment of their transition and used by mothers at the time of birth and to ease their autistic children’s suffering. For many, it has become the quintessential healing soundtrack for meditation and massage. “My mission is to create music that can create an experience of transcendence in the listener; strike a chord on their heartstrings, and remind them of Home – a feeling of Oneness,” Peter commented.
A favorite on Internet radio such as Pandora, Sirius, XM Satellite, and Soundscapes Radio as well as United and American airlines, Peter scarcely dreamed that his music would have a massive worldwide audience back when he was recording his first 8 tracks on a cassette tape in Byron Bay, Australia and marketing it on foot around Sedona with its hand-drawn cover art. Now, through Internet Radio, CD, DVD, his website, and countless other forums, Peter’s angelic music will continue to reach the masses, heal lives, balance brains, open hearts, and connect people to their innate spiritual essence.
A walk into his beautiful West-Sedona home will find dozens of his canvas and wood-mounted “Portals of Light” Mandala art prints, glossed and shimmering with finely-ground Quartz crystal specks. Peter’s stained glass pieces adorn much of the house as well, which are the inspiration used to create the Mandala design for the “Portals of Light” series. When not in the studio working on his next album, Peter is often found working in his organic vegetable and herb garden, ensuring fresh, high-energy food for his family, which now consists of his partner Crystal, and their 5-year old son Micah. Peter also enjoys guiding out-of-towners on Sacred Land Journeys to Sedona’s spectacular vortex sites that have captured his heart and inspired his art and music.
Check out all of Peters music at www.harpmagic.com And his Portals of Light Art at www.mandalamagic333.com
Listen to “Healing Through Music with Peter Sterling 08/30/16” on Spreaker.
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