Love Your Story: Stories and discussions about personal growth, mindset and living with intention

Episode 109 An Inside Look at Suicide: Interview Megan Borquin   Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast. Today we get real with Megan Bourquin, a 21-year-old woman who attempted suicide, and her open, authentic discussion about why, mindset, her life experiences and some thoughts on how we can help stem the tide of suicide in America.   Megan was born and raised in Michigan. Her upbringi...

108 Interview Jodi Orgill Brown: The Sun Still Shines – Surviving a brain tumor   Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today’s story is about a woman’s heartbreaking beautiful journey. At first blush, it’s hard to see how someone could reframe a non-operable brain tumor wrapped around the brain stem, the paralysis of the right side of her face, and on-going headaches, pain, and press...

Episode 107 Interview with Heidi Totten – What is YOUR Kenya? Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today we are talking about how awesome it is that we get to take underwear for granted, and how one woman is at the hub of creating underwear for women in Kenya who may have never had underwear – and most certainly do NOT take it for granted.  But it’s a lot more than just a talk about skivv...

Episode 105 Wendy Yellen: Move Through the Things that Stop you to Get to the Next Level   Wendy Yellen was named one of the international top 3 transformation experts in her field. She works in the field of Eidetic Imagery where she supports people of heart and integrity around the world to live a full, passionate, successful and unshackled life of love, awareness and compassion. I bring her...

Episode 104: We All Know Fear We all know fear. We’ve come up short as the fear of rejection stopped us from being vulnerable with someone, or stopped us from creating a relationship, or stopped us from sharing ourselves or an idea. We’ve known the fear of failure as we’ve contemplated doing something risky and then done an about-face as the wash of “what-if-it doesn’t-work” engulfs us. Fear of fa...

  Episode 104 Interview Taunia Dawn Terry Part 2: There Is a Price to Pay for Freedom and Joy Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today Part 2 of my interview with Taunia Dawn Terry hits the airwaves. If you’re just joining us, go back and listen to her story in Part 1 because Part 2 is a our candid discussion about a woman who has beautiful spiritual gifts of intuition and healing,...

Episode 103 Interview Taunia Dawn Terry – Part 1: There Is a Price to Pay for Freedom and Joy   Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today I have a double treat for you. My interview with Taunia Dawn Terry is one that involves one hell of a story, but spoiler alert, it ends with a woman who has beautiful spiritual gifts of intuition and healing. This two-part series includes a story...

Episode 102 Stories from the Drum and Bugle Corps. Academy Drum and Bugle Corps is a world-class professional marching band out of Tempe Arizona.  Today’s episode is a group interview with some of these impressive and talented young musicians as we sat out on the field after they finished up a 10-hour practice on a hot July day. Stay tuned for their stories of learning, self-discipline, overcoming...

Episode 101 The Kjars: Part 3 – Travels to all 50 States Concludes Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. For those of you that are loyal listeners, you’ll already be familiar with the Kjars – the family traveling to all 50 states in 52 weeks in their motor home, meeting with other kids and families to see how other people in our country live. In the first interview – episode 45 they had ju...

The Mentor – We’re all in this Together Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. You are tuned in for episode 100, and today we are talking about the third story archetype (the third one I’ve tackled on the podcast) – the Mentor.  Joseph Campbell, in his book  The Hero of a Thousand Faces , claimed that the most popular stories over millennia and across cultures, share a specific formula- the hero&...

Episode 99 Interview with Dan Davis: Stories that Stir Welcome back to the Love Your Story podcast. It’s a beautiful summer day for creating fabulous moments in your life story, so let’s get a little inspiration for doing something that your future self will thank you for. Today I have Dan Davis, the owner, and creator of Stiry – stories that stir, with me today. He and his team have told video st...

Episode 98 Interview Talie Davis Weir: Uncovering and Acknowledging the Masterpiece You Already Are Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast! Where I get to interview people with amazing life stories; where we discuss tools for living our best life stories, and really often we get both at the same time. Like today! Today I bring you Talie Davis Weir from Ohio. She is a life and personal development...

Episode 97 Interview with the von Niederhauserns: Family Humanitarian “Excitement and Fear are the Same Feeling.”   The vonNiederhausern family consists of Rachel the mother, Steve the father and six children ages 14 – 4 months. Steve and Rachel have a very powerful way of living – on purpose. They say that sometimes it feels a little weird to buck the cultural norms of not owning...

Episode 96 Interview with Mark Shurtleff: A Tornado of Trails – When the Other Shoe Drops Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. Today you are joining me for an interview with Mark Shurtleff the former three term Utah Attorney General. He is the founder of Shurtleff Consulting Group and Law Firm, and the owner of the Commercial clean energy project development company. He is the author of a...

Episode 95 The Bad-Ass Broad Link to Stephanie’s site and this post:  https://stephaniestclaire.com/the-bad-ass-broad/ The Bad Ass Broad By Stephanie St. Claire Sometimes life requires you to be a bad ass broad. As in, take a look at the craziness surrounding you, pull that shit together, and HANDLE IT. Who is the Bad Ass Broad? She doesn’t tolerate drama, whether it’s her own or another’s....

Episode 94 Interview with Tabitha Trent: We Can Do Hard Things Welcome to the Love Your Story podcast. You are tuning in today for the story of Tabitha Trent – a young married woman with a 2-year-old daughter who was diagnosed with stage III Colon Cancer in January 2017. Let me share a couple reasons I’m doing this interview: first, there is probably not a soul out there that hasn’t either had can...

Episode 93 What is a Herald? Who or What is Calling You into the Great Adventures of Your Life?   Welcome back to the Love Your Story Podcast. Today we are picking up the story archetype discussion – specifically the archetype of the Herald. Remember in episode 72 when we talked about the Threshold Guardian and the things that test us to see how badly we want what we think we want? Well, toda...

Episode 92 Interview with Carmel Clermont: Mother to the Masses Carmel Clermont is a Haitian woman who was raised by her aunt in Haiti until she was 15 years old. She finally joined her parents in the US in 1986. She went to high school, and to college, got married and had 5 children, inherited 5 more stepchildren, and decided she was most at home when she was helping others, so she went to work t...

Episode 91 Creating Your Life on Purpose (Guest Interview with Taylor Proctor) When a story is told we follow along with the main character and await the challenge or the crux of the story – the adventure, and then we listen or watch as the hero decides what to do. The events have already happened, that’s why the story can be told, but the piece we didn’t need to think about was how the characters...

Episode 90 Your Origin Story: Where are you from? (Guest interview with Will Schaub) What is an origin story?  The definition found in the ever trusted source of Wikidepia states that:” In entertainment, an  origin story  is an account or back- story  revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist, and adds to the overall study of a narrative, often giving reasons...

Random Acts of Kindness – Boots on the Ground It’s an inside job   “Along your pathway of life, you will observe that you are not the only traveler. There are others who need your help. There are feet to steady, hands to grasp, minds to encourage, hearts to inspire, and souls to save.” –Thomas S. Monson, Past Prophet of the LDS Church   Random Acts of Kindne...

Episode 88: Defining Our Personal Values – Do you have stories to prove these are your values? When a business defines its values it determines what it wants its governing value system to be. Now, this can be hot air, something that sounds good in a mission statement, or it can be something that the management and employees live by.  When we set our own personal value system it’s very simila...

Episode 87 Interview with Jen Faber: How to Live More in 3 Months  than you have in 3 Years   What does a successful life look and feel like to you? For everyone it’s going to be a little different. For Dr. Jen Faber, my guest today, she had built a six-figure wellness practice and was a thought leader in her industry, but despite all she had created in her professional life she felt like a v...

Episode 86 Interview with Jennifer Anderson – Chief Inspiration Officer Welcome to the Love Your Story Podcast, Episode 86. Have you ever woken up at approximately 3:00 a.m. in the morning? It’s weird. For years I would wake up between [3:00] - 4:00 a.m. and often at exactly the same minute regardless of when I went to bed. This went on for so long that I started to think it was some sort of...

Episode 85 Interview Dr. Brenda Kelleher Flight: Life is a Reflection of Thought Has your life turned out as you expected? Do you ever feel like things are totally out of your control? Are you overwhelmed, stuck and ready to get your life back?….so starts the paragraph on Dr. Brenda’s home page. And since that very first question she poses is the exact same question as the one I posed on my...