​BECAUSE EVERYONE HAS A STORY "BEHAS"

Francis Piche is a keynote speaker, a coach, and the founder and CEO of Resilience Element. He is on a mission to share his revelation regarding resilience with the world. His story today is about his quest to follow his heart.  Francis shares his choices, struggles, the lessons he learned, their costs, and where he is now.  His passion now is to help reawaken people's inner power and raise t...

Claudia Gutierrez shares her story of transformation and her passion for human development. It all started with not feeling well, a doctor removing her thyroid, and the appearance of traumas and depression.  Claudia talks about her drive to find an explanation for it all, her search for answers and solutions.  She created a technique to help herself, and now assists others in healing wounds, being...

Jennifer M. Alemany shares her struggles as a young girl from a single mom living in Brooklyn.  Jennifer was the first to graduate from college in her family. After college, she became a live-in nanny until she could figure out what was next. With the support of her mom’s wisdom, she then embarked on a 22-year human resources career in the academic and corporate worlds. After losing two of her lov...

Mike Acker shares how his life was shaped via good, bad, and ugly circumstances.  We can’t start Mike’s story without first talking about his parents.  Listen in to hear how he learned things from his family that he was unaware of, and how he adjusted to conquer life with confidence.   Mike is a former pastor, an executive coach, a keynote speaker, and the author of four books, including the bests...

Anne Round  shares her journey to become a better human being with us via spiritual growth.  She explains how it allowed her to appreciate and love herself more, evolving from controlling and lim­it­ing be­liefs to know­ing herself as love.  Now she flows with and trusts in life. It gave her inspiration to write her book "Essences of Truth Inspirations for Loving Life.”   Listen in to hear of...

Jenny Toh. Until recently, Jenny Toh was a Malaysian and Singaporean lawyer. On the personal front, she felt complete.  A supportive husband, three wonderful children, close-knit friends, and her church community.  However, she felt that she was not living her life to its fullest potential. She was looking for a new purpose in her career.  Jenny shares her story of transitioning careers,  her doub...

Dorsey Ross is a youth minister, speaker, author and podcaster. In today’s episode, Dorsey shares his story of love, persistence and overcoming challenges.  He was born in the late 70s with a congenital disability known as Apert's Syndrome.  When he was born, the doctors gave Dorsey's parents no hope for survival and advised them to put him into an institution.  However, his parents beli...

Victoria Wieck grew up in South Korea.  In the 70 her father, seeking greater opportunities moved his family to the United States.  Victoria shares the challenges her family faced moving to Los Angeles.  A new city, new culture, and a new language. She talks about how she worked hard to obtain dream after dream. Her dedication and wise decisions led to successes, great pay, and more responsibiliti...

Mercedes Sanchez Garcia takes us on her life’s journey.  She’s always had a zest for a beautiful, active lifestyle. She also loves to cook and dance.  She enjoys sharing her gifts with others and believes it’s important for us to accept ourselves and never give up on finding happiness in the paths that suit us.   Born and raised in Spain, Mercedes subsequently lived in multiple countries where she...

 John Davis, at 22, had an awful accident while helping a friend move some heavy boxes.  It wasn’t just bone that shattered, but his dream of becoming a stuntman.   Despite the odds, he didn’t give up.  His curiosity, tenacity, passion and creativity set his life back on track.  Today John talks about his inner power and what he calls the Five Fs Formula.  A method to help any of us be able to ach...

Walter Wu. Walter Wu is a Canadian Paralympic swimmer who set records at the 1996, 2000, and 2004 Summer Paralympics. He won 14 medals before his retirement following the 2004 Athens Games. Although he’s humble, Walter does have bragging rights beyond his medals.  They include being an Olympic torchbearer, a member of the  Terry Fox Hall of Fame,  and a BC Disabled Athlete of the Year.  Since reti...

Christa Funk  talks today about her epiphany, how she realized that everything is already perfect.  Yes, everything.  Every moment, and every one of us.  She explains how she grew via the contributions of so many words of wisdom from people around her.   Her life journey includes her challenges, struggles, and doubts.  All these excellent feelings built her up to be the amazing, ever-flourishing w...

Rodrigo Vela, a  proud  Chilango (Mexico City native), along with his wife, Nana Matsumoto, are the proud owners of Maizal restaurant in East Vancouver, Canada.   Rodrigo talks us through the path he took to become a restaurateur in  Vancouver and the passion he required to get there.  I considered recording this episode in Spanish, but I don't want to do a disservice to my fellow Vancouverit...

Brenda St Louis  shares the story of finding her life’s purpose. Gifted with a powerful intuition and a social justice lens, she uses money to positively impact the world. She is engaging and delightful to listen to.  Brenda is an inspirational speaker, a Financial Therapist, a Money coach, an activator and the Founder of REWIRE. Her multi-faceted career as a massage therapist, voice actor, motiva...

This is the  last episode of Season Two! Thank you for your support. Allan " Alonzo" Wind talks about his first book, ANDEAN ADVENTURES: An Unexpected Search for Meaning, Purpose and Discovery Across Three Countries .  It covers his personal development as a young man who uprooted himself from his American comfort to become a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador and then later service i...

Alicia Markowitz comparte la transformación de su vida, "de la oscuridad a la luz." Una historia llena de grandes dificultades, trauma y abuso, hasta descubrir que el poder estaba dentro de ella y así transformarla en crecimiento, evolución y resiliencia comenzando una nueva historia con una familia hermosa. Alicia fue mi compañera de primaria en el Colegio Humboldt de Caracas, Venezuela...

Welcome to Episode #22 My guest Myrna F. Halpenny Myrna was born and raised in Kindersley, Saskatchewan, Canada.  She earned her Doctorate in Dental Surgery from McGill University in Montreal.  After two years as an associate in a general dental office, she elected to specialize in endodontics in Portland, Oregon. She then returned to Vancouver, where she started her specialty practise in endodont...

John Atkin  shares his story, his passionate curiosity for details, for learning, and for life itself.  We'll hear about his influencers and how the concept of his walking tours started.  As he says: “There is always something new to look at and always different ways of looking at things.” John is a civic historian, heritage consultant and walking tour guide who brings an insight into urban p...

Kai Hutchful, Maddie Knight, Samuel Menis, Matthew Tugonon, and Jade Iwata are my guests for this episode. I'm excited to try something different today. I got this idea back in the fall of 2020 when one of today's guests, Jade Iwata, visited us from Calgary and agreed to test my new recording equipment by being interviewed. I asked her a few questions about life and was touched by her br...

Susan Nassiripour Susan is a native of Vancouver. She discovered her passion for travel while in her twenties, which eventually led to her move to China. Her original plan was to live and work in China for a couple of years while travelling Asia before moving back to Canada to settle down. Susan doesn't open up about her childhood often but decided to share a little with us today because her...

 Ann Marie McKenzie  shares some of her life’s rough moments.  At one point, she felt extremely down and had no idea why.  She now knows that she had PMDD Premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a condition more severe than PMS.   Ann Marie shares how she got out of the funk with help from Danielle LaPorte’s words; “What you say no to is just as important as what you say yes to.” Choosing how we want to...

Benjamin Suster, con la llegada de su hijo y la adopción de su nueva ciudadanía Británica, Benjamin sintió una gran anhelo de extender su identidad arropando a la del país que ahora le da cobijo. Hoy comparte con nosotros su trozo de su historia. Como un día sentado en el metro de Londres de camino al trabajo, cansado de leer malas noticias en los periódicos gratuitos que allí distribuyen, decidió...

Lynn O'Reilly wasn't expecting how her new passion would help her connect with her husband, with nature and even with strangers. Today Lynn shares her love for riding and a few short stories covering her trips and adventures. Listening to her had me wondering if I would be brave enough to have similar adventures with Dave, my husband. Lynn took up adventure motorcycling in 2012 when she...

Galya Westler was a TEDx speaker in 2016. Today she continues to deliver inspirational talks around the world about blockchain for businesses such as finance, HR, social networks and the health industries.⁠ Hearing Galya gives her TEDx talk four years ago, I found myself relating to her. I had to meet her, so I reached out, and we became friends immediately.⁠ I am thrilled she agreed to be my gues...

Gonzalo Peña comparte su historia de cómo se integró al Coro de la Utha Opera  como barítono y el el objetivo por el cual creo su podcast "InnoLatino."    Gonzalo es un podcaster con un pasado muy ecléctico. Su experiencia cubre campos como Gestión de Negocios, Finanzas, Relaciones Internacionales, Artes, Gestión sin  Fines De Lucro, y Agencias Humanitarias. Gonzalo ha tenido el privileg...