Overcomers Overcoming

Sheila Doerfler chronicles a portion of her life story of overcoming and dealing with previous life traumas. Healing is a process that requires a measured approach that includes self-awareness. Therapy and life coaching can be a useful part of the healing process. Sheila explains, based on her life experience, healing can occur with the right attitude and processes. We can learn to manage past tra...

"Ironman" David Richman addresses how he overcame negativity in his life and how we can also. Changing negative thoughts to positive thoughts can happen. However, we must be motivated to do so. Motivation to change ourselves is personal and requires an introspective view of the "child" in us that might be causing negative thinking leading to negative actions. While making this change starts with u...

Tricia Roos experienced dissatisfaction with her job leading to anxiety and stress in her life. She did not feel valued, which was the impetus to evaluate her life purpose and what brings wholesome satisfaction to her. She describes part of her life story in her book, "She also chronicles her journey in her book, "When Wishes Change: What If the Thing You Feared Most Brings More Than You Dreamed?"...

The Karchner family (Rick – Dad, Carole – Mom, and Matt – son) worked through a season of Matt's life when he had a dalliance with homosexuality. Through devoted prayer, fasting, and unconditional love, Rick. Carole, and selected other dedicated, God-fearing friends prayed Matt out of a season of his life such that he can now tell his ExGay prodigal story that he chronicles in two books he authore...

Candace Mae Gruber chronicles her life of experiencing and overcoming several life traumas. The book "Powerhouse Women: Survivor to Thriver," of which she is a co-author describes how she survived and is thriving these life traumas. She credits her transformation and new life of overcoming to her relationship with Jesus Christ, her Lord and Savior. Her relationship with her Lord and Savior, alongs...

Linda Bjork chronicles her life experiences of the feeling of abandonment and low worth early in life. She has experienced many "mountains" in her life. However, through her perseverance and resilience, she has and will continue to overcome on her journey to significance. You can read about her life experiences in her books, " Crushed: A Journey Through Depression ," "You Got This! an action plan...

Eric Coon draws from his life experience while also illuminating financial principles from the book "The AND Asset: The secret way to save and use your money at the same time" by Caleb Guilliams. This episode aligns with Episode 4, where Eric discusses the "why" that helps define our need for our financial discipline. The "why" of our financial life can help us think and plan long term. Too many o...

Confronting others is daunting to some people. Some "underdo" the conversation because they do not want to lose a friendship. Some people overdo the conversation by talking condescendingly to others. So, is there a right mix? Maureen Ross Gemme shares her life experience of helping others raise their standard of behavior by effectively confronting others. There is an effective mix of compassion, r...

Eric Coon devotes this continuing podcast series to address the investor's future goals related to your "why." Defining a purpose and why customized to your financial goals will help you tailor and specify what you are working to achieve. We should compete against and work toward our future goals – not compete with someone else or a financial indicator. What constitutes life fulfillment? Everyone...

Cat Sharp has a very transparent testimony about her early life of depression, shame, anxiety, and the effect of toxic relationships despite being raised in a very religious home. She explains how her relationships with our Lord and human relationships helped her overcome her life "mountain." She addresses her former binge eating habits and how she can help others overcome similar habits in her on...

Rollins Walker lost his two-year-old sister to burns resulting from a firebombing. He later lost his mother from a homicide that was a follow-on to that firebombing. He was raised under the influence of drugs and alcohol. However, he knew intuitively and through critical thinking that that lifestyle "would not end well." Despite the negative influences in his life, he focused on the positives he h...

Juli Geske-Peer shares her life and leadership experiences and expertise to help the hiring manager and interviewee perform at their respective potential. Replacing an employee can cost $65K or more. The most effective interview is one in which the hiring manager and interviewee know if each is the best match to advance each other. Learn from her life experiences in her book, " 5 Senses for Succes...

Kimberly Bell advances her story of living a very dysfunctional childhood that includes having a biological mother who does not accept her. She is experiencing post-traumatic stress disorder because of this experience. However, through effective mentoring and other relationships, she is on a journey of overcoming and living with the past. She is passing on her life experience and wisdom by helping...

Michelle became a widow at age 27 through her husband's aneurism. This was a devastating life event. However, life is a choice point. Become an influencer and join those who have the power to lead and set directions for themselves and others. Michelle earned her doctorate at age 50, 23 years after her husband's life-changing passing. She opted out of the "C"' suite position she had earned to start...

Erin Diehl is an 18-year old at the time of this recording who had the temerity to ask her Dad for mental health assistance. Erin was very generous and inspirationally vulnerable to explain her anxieties that led to request help. Become One is a project designed to provide a safe place to listen while expressing care. Those with a passion to help those in need can get more information at https://w...

Juli Geske-Peer discusses an aspect of self-confidence as we work with those within our circle of influence. This discussion applies to parents, friends, associates, and those we supervise. We can overcome anxieties associated with confronting people by approaching them with an attitude of wanting to understand them to determine the reason(s) they are not meeting our expectations. Do they know our...

Juli Geske-Peer relates in this second episode how she overcame a dysfunctional family relationship in which she felt inadequate with low self-confidence. It is through the value of encouragement from relationships that she "energized" her innate but latent determination trait. While she is on a continuous journey to overcome some reminiscent events that evoke thoughts of the past, she is now help...

Tricia Roos addresses how she confronts her women's volleyball team to achieve higher performance standards. Confronting others can be intimidating and, for some, a reason to accept lower standards. Tricia adheres to having to reasoned "why" that a performance standard is needed. She explains some of her life story and personal standards in her book, "When Wishes Change." We encourage everyone to...

Eric Coon, Financial Planner, explains how to overcome habits of near-term thinking to transition to long-term thinking for financial success. Statistics show too many people are not planning for long-term fiscal choices. That is, not enough people are saving for emergencies and retirement. This is a result of being fiscally out of balance. A budget listing all fixed and variable expenses along wi...

Danny: Can you, or can you recommend someone, who can remove the hollow sound of this recording. I recorded this session with four people and one microphone using Audacity to record. I passed the single microphone around to try to improve sound quality.

Pastor Jamal and Sabrina Hyman chronicle their life together to overcome all of life's adversities. Sabrina married Pastor Jamal in a state of needing encouragement from a combination of job failings, double open-heart surgery, an absentee father, and deaths in the family. By some measures, Pastor Jamal has experienced more life adversities in his young life than most people experience in a lifeti...

Matthew Karchner chronicles his life of being raised in a Christian family. However, there was a period of his earlier life that he did not feel as masculine nor adequate as his male counterparts. That resulted in him withdrawing from others and "exploring" avenues of feeling better about himself. Through a brief exploration period, he entered into the gay lifestyle that included drinking that pro...

Alex Brueckmann chronicles his family move from Germany to Canada during a period of COVID, which introduced many vagaries. Complicating this series of events was his son's birth and his father's passing away. Because of COVID and the inherent global uncertainties that engendered, he was uncertain even as he boarded the aircraft to depart Germany if the passport and visa requirements might change...

Kareemah Emordi returns for a fifth episode to discuss marketplace ministry. Some people think of marketing as strictly a business term that has no place in the church. People frequently want what we have or who we are. However, if we think of marketing as simply telling others about what we have that they might want, we are merely passing on a recommendation or referral. Do people want what you h...

Jerry Fu chronicles his professional work life that includes making several pivots. Those pivots resulted in him viewing everything as an opportunity. Jerry explains that evaluated experiences are the best examples to fail forward. He has overcome some challenging life experiences. He explains the process, books, and mentors from whom he learned some valuable life lessons to progress beyond those...