Overcomers Overcoming

Barbara Walsh is a mom, business owner, and breast cancer survivor. She had a lot of plans for the prime of her life. But, everything changed a few years ago when a routine mammogram revealed a need for a biopsy. She was then given the devasting news, "You have Stage 1 Breast Cancer." The oncologist outlined the standard treatment protocol: surgery, radiation, and chemo, without offering any guara...

Dana Diaz was born to a teenage mother out of wedlock who didn't want her but was forced to keep her. Reduced to nothing, she left home during her first year of college and immediately fell for a covert narcissist who promised her the love I never had. Dana married him who soon verbally and physically abused her much as her father did. She ignored her intuitive sense and married him anyway. During...

Matt Shoup is a Jesus follower, husband, father, award-winning serial entrepreneur, author, keynote speaker, Spain aficionado, aspiring paella chef, Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu black belt, and Spanish coffee addict. Matt's entrepreneurial journey began at 10 when he started a lawn mowing business to earn $200 for a boombox. It was then that Matt discovered his passion and love of business. Ten years later...

Dr. John DeGarmo and his wife began foster parenting in 2008. They overcame the loss of their first child and adopted three children. In addition, they have fostered over 60 children. He is The   Foster Care Institute Director, an author, TEDx speaker, and one who works with legislators across the nation. He is driven to help children in crisis and does so through speaking and media appearances. D...

Steve Wilson chronicles a portion of his life beginning at nine. He helped an unsuspecting person while in a movie theater who raped him. Steve immediately dismissed what happened, not knowing if he may have caused the incident. Through many years of his life, having suppressed the incident, he was diagnosed as being type 2 bipolar. For most of his 74 years of life, he has had bipolar disorder. De...

Kathleen Donnelly Israel chronicles her life of a difficult childhood that carried into her marriage. Kathleen is a San Diego, California, resident where she has lived her whole life. Ron (her deceased husband) and Kathleen Israel raised their five children in Lakeside, San Diego County. They were a Team Couple for Worldwide Marriage Encounter in the 70s and 80s. She has a bachelor's degree in art...

Bruce is a very successful business owner who was forced to prioritize major decisions involving selling his business, shortly after which he was diagnosed with cancer. He chronicles his life of critical thinking, encouraging and inspiring others to make informed decisions by prioritizing life events. He completed his education at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, and quickly found his way...

Roman Fischer's grandfather inspired him to become nutritional and fitness-conscious through the passing of his grandfather and a close family friend, who each passed away due to cancer and unhealthy eating habits. He knew he didn't want the same demise. He developed a passion for learning health and nutrition to help transform people's lives one body at a time and ultimately help transform the wo...

Laura Morlando, The Stress Commando, overcame her father's cancer and her diagnoses of autoimmune and Lyme diseases to pivot to her self-employed online business. Through self-awareness, she knows how to live best with stress while honoring her physical and cognitive challenges.  Laura helps professionals and companies network stress-free and work stress-free with artificial intelligence (AI) and...

Beth Gustin was born blind through a premature birth. However, she was raised never to let that stop her from pursuing life's best for her. Despite being told, "No, you can't do something," She moved beyond these life obstacles to become a full-time business owner of her practice specializing in grief and loss therapy. You might want to know how Beth and her guide dog, Manolo, can help you feel go...

Paul Stuart Honeycutt grew up as a Jehovah's Witness and asked to leave because of his gay lifestyle. Paul experienced being lost in his community while being ostracized by his family. He was lost in the "big" world. He immersed himself in corporate work. However, that was short-lived because it was not satisfying. He learned he wasn't being true to himself. Shortly after leaving the corporate wor...

Matt Paradise has overcome homelessness, addiction, and an overdose. August 2023 will be his 24th year of sobriety. His most recent obstacles are bile duct cancer, chemo, radiation, and a liver transplant. Matt is now focusing on financial health and helping others to become financially capable. You can learn more about Matt and his financial practice at https://www.mattparadise.com/ . He is also...

Sandra Cooze is a loving wife and mother, intuitive mentor and coach, certified trauma healer, and author of  Journey to Your Self – How to Heal from Trauma . Most importantly, she is a trauma survivor who has found her path through the darkness into a bright new day. Her journey taught her you won't realize how much your trauma is holding you back from truly living until you have freed yourself f...

Chelsey Brooke Cole grew up feeling "not enough." She desperately wanted to feel whole — to be seen and heard. To know that she didn't have to earn love. Her early relationships reflected her mindset then. She was used to try to "win" someone's love. She felt she was fundamentally flawed — that even though other people could have healthy relationships, the best she could do was find someone else w...

Dr. Pradeep Kumar Sacitharan has an extraordinary life story to share. He went from a war refugee, teenage gangster, and high school dropout to an award-winning scientist at Oxford and Harvard in 7 years. He went on to discover drugs as a professor and become Vice President of a Biotech with a revenue of 1.6 billion USD. He challenged the system, quit his career, and founded his 8-figure company i...

Marie Lesaicherre is the founder and CEO of Akesa Health, a startup offering a self-guided therapy app helping people transform anxiety and distress into resilience. She is a global entrepreneurial executive with 18 years of experience launching tech businesses for General Electric and startups in the US, Asia, Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Marie holds a Ph. D. in Chemical Biology from the...

Jennifer Dawn Robbins overcame her family's toxic culture to find the passion that drives her today. She sold apples off my grandfather's tree when she was eight. She then launched a cake decorating business in high school, worked for the Governor of Florida, and IBM in my early 20s. Always wanting to improve and do things her way, she founded her first software company at 23. That company develop...

Pastor (retired) James W. Smith shares his life-evaluated experiences to benefit others. He encourages, inspires, and transforms through his life experiences. He shares important lessons on how to get out of the ditch and succeed. Confronting was one of the most valuable life lessons he learned. Whatever you are going through, confronting it helps.  Don't let your circumstance be an excuse.  Don't...

Johnathan K. Drayton is a Christian philosopher and aspiring lawyer. He triple majored in his college education in Philosophy, History, and Political Science. In college, he desired to know God's purpose for his life. He knew he loved God. However, he had difficulty applying God's Word to his life. That changed when he took a philosophy class and continued reading God's Word. He allowed God to spe...

Marshall Zweig survived sexual, emotional, and psychological traumas. He spent decades, and hundreds of thousands of dollars, learning to feel again. Through all this, he transformed his relationships with his wife and mother, who gaslighted him. The experience took him to the edge of sanity, but his relationship with his wife and mother is thriving, loving and respectful.  Many years ago, his fat...

Justine Martin is known as the Queen of Resilience. She has endured more medical challenges than most people. She faced mortality and built a few successful businesses along the way. With the pinnacle of obtaining international and national business awards recognizing her speaking and coaching. In 2011, medical personnel diagnosed her as having Relapsing-Remitting Multiple Sclerosis (MS).Consequen...

Rich Lamonica is the MisFitNation Show CEO, and the host. The show originated through the efforts of a U.S. Army Veteran and is hosted by two veterans and a military spouse. The show's goal is to inspire everyone to be better humans. The MisFitNation does this by having guests with stories of grit and resilience while adding in experts in many fields, such as authors, entrepreneurs, coaches, motiv...

Susan Gold was raised in a small rural town in central Pennsylvania and faced trauma as the middle child in a violent and chaotic household. Her brilliant, alcoholic, astrophysicist father and equally ingenious, mentally ill, homemaking mother collided in dysfunction. As a sibling in a family of five children in short succession, she experienced rampant covert and overt abuse. Hurt and damaged chi...

Business owners hire Julie Delucca-Collins to build and grow a successful business and life using simple habits, a strong mindset, and increased confidence to achieve their goals. When she started her business, she knew the satisfaction of everything her business would bring to her -   freedom, Impact, Flexibility, and Income. Having dealt with and overcome some shortcomings early in her life, Jul...

Owen Santos was born with an asthmatic condition that limits his lung capacity. Motivation to succeed can come in various forms. Some people need positive inspiration, while others can achieve stimulation through negative means. Owen wanted to prove the doctor wrong, who said Owen would spend much of his life in hospitals because of his asthmatic condition. He was determined to prove him wrong. To...