​BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A STORY "BEHAS"

Amanda Penny is the 17-year-old podcast host of "Amanda's World."  She is not an ordinary teen; her life comes with struggles, but her dynamic, energetic and go-getter personality keeps her strong and resilient. She is entirely self-taught and directly produces and manages her podcast independently. When it comes to social media and podcasting, Amanda has a lot of experience.  Amand...

Welcome to episode # 62 My guest Angela Laws Angela is the Community Manager at TrustedHousesitters, and she has a fascinating lifestyle. She is an expert at driving brand awareness and leveraging community spirit.  She encompasses the warmth and spirit at the pet-loving community's heart. After retiring at age 65, Angela became a founding member of the TrustedHousesitters platform, and a ful...

Fred Rutma's story goes beyond resilience. Today he is sharing a few details about his experiences, deaths, brain traumas, attempts at recovery, repeated medical errors, defective pacemakers, and overcoming adversity. But he's leaving plenty for his book readers. During this process, he discovered a potent prophylactic medicinal tool, intermittent fasting. Fred narrates this with great J...

Kristen Donnelly.  Kristen is an international empathy educator, a TEDx speaker, one of The Good Doctors of Abbey Research, and COO of their parent company.  She has decades of experience helping people understand the different concepts that could change the world, and she unapologetically and passionately loves to share about it.   Kristen lives just outside Philadelphia with her husband, surroun...

Andrew’s love of travel started when, at age 12, his parents encouraged him to take an educational trip to the Mediterranean. His early respect for money started not much later, probably because his parents expected him to pay for his college education. One day, sitting on a friend’s patio after finishing a bike race, he realized that travelling, swimming in tropical waters, riding his bike, meeti...

Ann Hince wants us all to know that we have this incredible power; it means going further with practices that you are probably already doing. The key is practice.  Ann believes changing what is on our inside will change what we see on the outside so that we can change our personal and collective worlds. Ann is an Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) expert, the author of A Pathway to Insight, and mu...

Tim Heale is a former British Army Officer. He started as an infantry soldier and worked his way to become a PSYOPS Operator. Tim has vast experience and was sent on seven different operational deployments.   He is a rugby fanatic and used to play scrum half, then also played American football for Milton Keynes Pioneers. He is an accomplished skier that competed several times at the British Telema...

Nicole Dauz. Nicole is a self-care advocate, caregiver coach, author and speaker who chooses happiness despite her circumstances. Experience is her teacher as the mother of a neurotypical son and a daughter with a rare genetic disease and autism. She approaches self-care in a liberating fashion that gives us all permission to take time for ourselves. She’s the founder of Selfcare4Caregivers and ho...

Adelaide Campbell tells her story, and the story of how Kachaça Spirits was born. Adelaide offers nuggets of knowledge for anyone thinking of taking a leap into their passion. She shares her challenges and her successes.  All that cachaça talk made me dream of summer and having people over for caipirinhas, Brazil's national cocktail. This interview might tempt you to get a bottle if you are i...

Eric Spitz is here to explain how he combines his passions of running and travelling by running a marathon in each of the United States’ 50 states before he turns 40. He also plans to have a book written by then.  He is a member of the 50 States Marathon Club, and he’s already knocked 16 states off his list. Eric’s been writing about his experiences in each state on his Juxtaposed Journeys blog. J...

Tonia Cordi is here to share how it started for her and how she helps others with her five-step process based on her experience with her clients. Her process encompasses intentions and values — everything from personal growth and sustainability to organizing and creating systems. She started her career as a teacher and, after 12 years, decided to follow her passion for helping people create spaces...

Carline Crevecoeur  is here to share why she wrote her memoirs and teach us some lessons along the way. I think you're going to like this awe-inspiring, resilient person. Carline is a Haitian American obstetrician, gynecologist, and now also an author. She immigrated to the US at the age of 5 and was raised in Brooklyn, New York, where she went into the medical field. After  20 years of medic...

Shlomo Freund is sharing his story on how he combined finance and travel. If you are a remote worker or a digital nomad, his story could be of interest to you.  Shlomo is a location-independent entrepreneur, author and public speaker. He loves travelling and has always been fascinated by investments and finances. His primary residence is in Israel, but he usually takes workcations. Yes, that’s rig...

Marie Alessi Marie Alessi is a mother to two boys, a bestselling author and speaker. After her husband passed from a brain aneurysm, she found and created her way back to Joy. She instinctively knew it was her only option when considering their young boys. Marie is a shining example of choosing love over fear and sadness. She has created a movement that approaches grief and loss differently than w...

Joi Fisher-Griffin  Author and entrepreneur Joi R. Fisher-Griffin is an experienced educator, a passionate adoption advocate and a patron of the arts. After going through her own struggles as an adoptee, Joi wrote her memoir, Finding Joi: A True Story of Faith, Family, and Love. She shared her story so that she could help others who sit in silence about their struggles, and she continues to find w...

William "Bill" Cohen shares how he turned his pain and personal loss due to his mother’s Alzheimer’s into passion and an “encore career”.   We talk about managing care and practicing self-care and prevention. We talk about dementia, Alzheimer’s, their symptoms and treatments.  And also things not to do for a person living with dementia. Bill is a caregiving support consultant, a very int...

Chancellor K. Jackson  is an American football player, teacher and author. Chancellor wrote "14 Days in Beijing" following the traumatic experience of being arrested and detained there. He followed that up with "You Love, and You Learn," a romantic drama about his journey to gain emotional intelligence. We touch on his life story in this episode. His life story so far is intere...

Ryan Harbuck's  teenage years were challenging.  They included a paralyzing car accident, and an alcoholic mother. She had to grow up quickly. She became a teacher and swim coach. She has been story-telling her whole life and has stitched all the stories together to produce her new book.   Here, Ryan shares her life story, covering many exciting topics. Her accident, her life with a disabilit...

Andrew Campbell is here to share his artistic life journey. His traits include flexibility and adaptability, and you'll hear how they've served him well.   Ultimately he is a happy man because he has always followed his passions. Andrew is a musician, photographer, and videographer. He was born in Malaysia, lived in the UK, Canada, and Japan. His work has received awards in North America...

My guest Gramps Jeffrey shares how he became a writer and the importance of the village on our kid's and grandkids' development and growth. Our conversation will be ordinary magic that most families would relate to. Jeffrey loves to read to his grandkids. It inspired him to write and publish his own children's book - " I Don't  Want To Turn 3 ." The stars of this book...

Katherine Wehler is a Quantum Conscious Business and Soul Coach who assists in exploring, rediscovering, and empowering the soul’s highest self and true potential. She is also a Professional Astrologer with over 20 years of experience, A Human Design Reader, Original Akashic Record Keeper of the 23rd Dimension, and Host of The Soul (Re)Discovery Podcast. Through her soul (re)discovery process, Kat...

Chloe Doesburg  is the co-founder and CEO of Driftscape , a mobile app company whose mission is to make local culture easier to discover. After co-founding the music mapping project Track Toronto, she learned of the enormous appetite and enthusiasm for location-specific media. She also learned of numerous initiatives creating rich, high-quality content related to their communities from unique pers...

Sam Thiara  is sharing his quest to search for his identity on his journey to India to find his ancestral roots armed with little else than a faded photograph and determination. As he begins to piece together the puzzle of his history, Sam realizes he is piecing himself together, too. Sam is an educator from Simon Fraser University here in Vancouver, Canada.  He's a storyteller with two TedX...

Joe Sherman, MD Joe is a pediatrician, a coach, and a consultant. He started his journey as a pediatrician helping communities in Uganda and Bolivia. Despite his successes and adventures after his return to the US, Joe experienced profound burnout. He found it necessary to leave medicine temporarily to reflect on why he became a physician in the first place and whether he should return. Joe wrestl...

Harry Derbitsky & Joe Fletcher share how the Mental Health Transformations group was formed, and they explain the unique perspective for people suffering from mental health and struggling through recovery. Through their experiences, the group knows that it is possible to heal and experience the freedom of a healthy mental state, away from addiction and severe mental distress, by applying three...