Maura Sweeney: Living Happy Inside Out | Personal Growth | Influence | The Power of Happiness

A look at how life can be more influential, redeeming - and fruitful - than we know! 

Encouraging and transcendent news for anyone who's been suffering in time. It's a long one, but hold on. You can't help but leave this episode with renewed hope - even beyond anything you've imagined.   

Most of us feel "infuenced" by others.  In today's podcast, I reverse the paradigm and demonstrate how powerful you truly are - especially when you realize you are a person of influence! A reading (with additional commentary) from one of my books. 

Can a single song, known and sung by all, create an uplifting atmosphere over a half century ago? Find out how you can choose to have a song in your heart to remind your mind - everything IS beautiful. 

We're all guilty of judging.  My story of the grueling initial experience visiting my future Polish mother-in-law at her home - along with her equally Polish sisters - for the first time. I wasn't quite welcome.  You'll laugh, you'll feel some pain, but hopefully you'll also emerge from this tale with some positive take-aways in the process.     

Life is always providing us new ways to grow - especially when we feel challenged!  

Is there life outside your comfort zone? You bet! Getting there is a journey, but the trips - and falls - along the way are worth the life rewards found on the other side. 

Elvis said it best: "Truth is like the sun. You can cover it up, but it ain't goin' away."  A look at how lies become us . . . and how we can emerge from darkness and into the light. 

Life stories on dealing with competition - both personally and among others - with a longterm eye on Winning in Life.   

Tune in for this part 1 introduction to Competition - a notion we've all encountered - but with a twist.  Introduction to thinking about competition in a different way. 

Not everyone, or everything, is as we suppose. Part 2 of a 2 part series. 

When we realize not everything - and especially everyone - is as we suppose.   Part 1 of a 2 part series.

One desperate prayer can land you where God wants you to go . . . . 

Sometimes, human strength, ability and grit are not sufficient for the unexpected storms we encounter in life.  My story about preparation for a Category 5 Hurricane that approached our townhouse, which was located just across the street from Tampa Bay. 

A friend once prompted me to ask an unusual question of God. This is that story. 

A strange dream uncovers an ancestral sin - and a prayer of atonement brings unexpected blessings a few days later. 

An sudden, unexpected moment as an adult brought back a suppressed memory - and forgiveness.  NOTE: My husband and I were NOT alumni of the Class of 1776, as I reference in this podcast, but of Class of 1976! LOL   

Prayers - and wonders - inside a full lockdown juvenile facility (now closed) in Florida. 

My experiences in Havana, Cuba in 1998 and . . . perhaps 3 years afterward! 

A last minute, impossible situation . . . .somehow turns possible. 

An answer to a prayer when I didn't know I'd need one. 

Before I could upload another of my own stories about prayer, I happened upon Steve. Here's his timely and on-point tale.   

Something to consider when the world as we know it starts slipping away . . . .  This is the first installment involving the question, "Should we pray, and is there a God who hears and answers us when we reach out?" 

Did you know that the Authentic You . . . was originally a Master-piece? Listen in to discover more about your origin, then look forward to a "re-newed" you in what's to come. 

Because some messages just bear repeating - again and again and again!