Soraya -Be Convinced! Sharing Lifechanging Stories of Hope

My guest Charissa Halonen is a mindset, fitness and nutrition coach who provides services with her husband online.  She shares her years of struggling with bad relationships, obesity, and alcohol.  Then, in 2014, she had a life-altering car accident that resulted in an undiagnosed brain injury that caused a complete personality change in her.  It was not until 3 years later that her brain injury w...

My guest is Nicole Smith, the founder of Dignity Defense Institute, a nonprofit organization that is committed to upholding the inherent dignity of every human life.  For over a decade, Nicole worked on the communications side of human rights all over the world for a faith-based constitutional law firm.  With a master’s degree in law and public policy and a sincere desire to bring about change, Ni...

My guest is Dr. Tamar Lawful, who has been named one of the top 50 most influential pharmacists in the country.  She has been a pharmacist for over 20 years and is the CEO and founder of LYFE Balance Inc.  She is on a mission to inspire busy women to prioritize their health and wellness.  Dr. Tamar shares with us how she went through many struggles in her life, from pregnancy, to not sleeping enou...

My guest Nick Hutchinson is an author, speaker, one-on-one coach, and a podcast host all at the age of 30. Nick has been the visionary force behind the company Book Thinkers, a growing 7-figure marketing agency that helps to bridge the worlds of authors and readers.  His platform reaches over 1,000,000 people each month.  A voracious reader himself, he firmly believes that there is a book out ther...

My guest Chad Holmes is a certified financial planner as well as a CPA, certified private wealth advisor, and a chartered retirement planning specialist. With over a decade of experience in finance and accounting, Chad’s passion and expertise has developed into assisting families to maximize their family legacies and take advantage of many tax saving opportunities.  All this can be achieved by fin...

Rand Selig has been a very successful entrepreneur who established and managed a prominent investment banking firm.  With an MBA from Stanford, he has not only been an accomplished professional, but has also been married for 43 years, has 2 children and 3 grandchildren, and has volunteered relentlessly.  With his breadth of personal and professional experience, he decided to write a book titled Th...

Dr. Brad Miller likes to be known as “The Adversity Doctor” linking comedy with cancer therapy.  He is not a medical doctor but had a career of over 43 years as a pastor and obtained his doctoral degree in ministry.  After retiring, he was diagnosed with cancer.  He said that he laughed to keep from crying after he heard the diagnosis. Dr. Miller has since brought his extensive experience in minis...

My guest Matt O’Neill is on a mission to spread the knowledge of the importance of good moods.  Yes – that’s correct!  Do you know how impactful a good mood can be to your life? Matt faced many challenges when he was growing up, from a father’s absence to limited financial resources.  He is a husband and father of four who has established and managed multiple businesses.  And he knows and understa...

Ilene Marcus is a leadership coach, author, and keynote speaker.  Ilene has over 30 years of leadership experience in diverse industries.  She especially enjoys mentoring entrepreneurs to start and scale businesses. She also enjoys working with teams.  The title of her book is How to Manage Annoying People – 7 Proven Tactics to Maximize Team Performance. As Ilene likes to advise, managing people b...

My guest Hannah Lynn is a certified coach who is passionate  about helping women prevent or overcome burnout, design a  career they love, and show up as their best selves.  Hannah knows about burnout all too well as she has suffered it twice in her life.  She is a wife, mother, and career professional who turned burnout into a blessing, as she stepped back, reassessed her life, and prioritized. Sh...

My guest Zachary Parker Harris is a very successful businessman who is making a tremendous impact on entrepreneurs through his organization Junto Global.  At a young age, Zachary was in to partying, taking drugs, and excessive drinking.   When he was 20 years old, he almost died in a car accident.  He then made the pivotal choice to leave toxic friendships behind. After landing a dream job at a Fo...

My guest is Tracy Herbert who is a type 1 diabetic and has  dyslexia.  Despite her health challenges, Tracy is a certified weight loss specialist, a certified personal trainer and wellness coach, an ACE senior fitness specialist, and a lead trainer in longevity codes.  Her pursuit of fitness and health took her on a successful 3,527-mile bicycle ride from San Francisco to New York when she was in...

Steph Katzovi is an author, wife, and the mother of two school-aged boys.  She always profoundly believed that she would be an author one day, but her path was very circuitous to reach her goal.  She obtained a college degree and then a law degree.  She even studied and passed bar exams in two states, but she never actually practiced law.  She also worked for many years as a professional speech wr...

Meet my guest Joe Martin, who likes to call himself the director of awesome-relentless positivity.  Joe openly shares how he went from being 50 pounds overweight to being voted his city’s healthiest trainer.  He went from being a below-average student to a best-selling author; from being a youthful offender on probation to being a positive force in his community and working with children; from bei...

Steve Gamlin is known as “The Motivational Firewood Guy”.  He is the creator of the Vision Board Mastery program as well as an author, coach, and keynote speaker.  By the age of 35, Steve had to change careers, went through a divorce, and suffered from financial loss. He was successfully able to turn his life around!  Steve is passionate about teaching the importance of SEEing your desired outcome...

Rick Ornelas is a best-selling author, professional coach, and the founder of the growing community “I Spark Change”.  What was the pivotal time in Rick’s life?  One night, he was driving home with his wife and children.  It was raining.  Suddenly, he lost control of the car.  It spun across lanes of traffic, eventually flipping over and landing back on its wheels.  Surprisingly, no one was hurt. ...

Patti Handy is a certified executive coach, certified life coach, and a financial coach who helps women transform their finances and their lives so they can achieve financial confidence and peace of mind.  She has had over 20 years of professional experience being a financial advisor and a mortgage advisor.  Patti knows firsthand how devastating financial challenges can be for a woman as she went...

Have you ever heard of a digital nomad? I hadn’t until I met my guest Kayla Ihrig who refers to herself as the queen of digital nomadism.  Kayla is a fascinating and determined young lady who left her world of a 9 to 5 job because she wanted more in her life.  After asking herself “wasn’t life supposed to be more fun?”, she decided to not let her life just pass her by but go out and travel and fin...

Dr. Jennifer Fraser is a consultant, author and speaker who is bringing about a transformation in how we look at all sorts of bullying and the physical damage that bullying does to our brains. She uses brain-science and an evidence-based approach to teach about brain fitness and how we can heal our brains from the trauma associated with bullying and abuse.  Her latest book is titled The Bullied Br...

Meet Beate Chelette, an author, founder of the Women’s Code, and what she likes to describe herself as “A Growth Architect”.  Beate was a broke single mom, a first-generation German immigrant, and $135,000 in debt.  How did she go from these challenging circumstances to eventually selling her business to Bill Gates for millions of dollars during a recession?  You will find out about her passion fo...

Vickie Rubin is an award-winning author, educator, and advocate.  She is the mother of a child named Jess, who has a rare chromosome deletion and who has been disabled all her life as a result.  Vickie has not only intimate personal knowledge and experience with having a disabled child, but she also has considerable professional experience working with families who have children with special needs...

Dr. Vermelle Greene is an author, educational consultant, teacher-trainer, mentor, and a homeschool grandparent.  She has experience of over 50 years as an educator and school administrator. Dr. Greene firmly believes that the way a child learns is affected by the child’s gender.  And, since boys learn differently than girls, they should be taught differently, but unfortunately, they often are not...

Pamela M. Covington  is a speaker, author, anti-poverty advocate and a women’s transition coach. She has earned multiple degrees, including two master’s degrees. Pamela shares with us her story of many struggles and hope.  It’s not an average story.  She went from middle-class comfort to fleeing with her children from her boyfriend who had PTSD.  That led her into deep poverty and living on welfar...

My guest Phebe Trotman is an author and an accomplished athlete, having won many accolades as a soccer player. Phebe’s book is titled Never Quit on a Bad Day – Inspiring Stories of Resilience.  It is a compilation of personal stories from Phebe and 9 other contributors that illustrate the power of never quitting.  Phebe shares her story of challenges playing soccer, but she did not let defeat stop...

My guest Dr. Guy E. Glad is a man for all seasons.  He is an ordained minister, an integrative Christian therapist, an organizational leader, and an educator. Add to all that, he is an author too! Dr. Glad shares how he was raised in a family where his father was an alcoholic and verbally abusive. He joined the armed forces as an army chaplain and served honorably for 28 years.   While there, he w...