Soraya -Be Convinced! Sharing Lifechanging Stories of Hope

If you are looking for mentors in your leadership journey, this is the segment for you!  Scott Jeffrey Miller is a prolific author, speaker & podcast host who is determined to provide you with all the help he can in leadership development and career success.  Scott started out with a stutter and then was fired early in his career. Now, he is known for his leadership success & helping other...

Jessica Tietjen’s life’s journey changed after going through difficult personal challenges.  A wife, mother, lawyer, and now author of the book The Exceptional Life Revolution - she has carved out for herself an important niche in providing consulting and coaching programs relating to personal and professional development and the workplace.  Do you want to have exceptional life experiences in your...

Dr. Basil Richards is a man who did not let his many life challenges keep him back and he will definitely inspire you as he shares how he regained hope after the death and loss of many family members.  He persevered through college and graduate school, ultimately obtaining a PhD, and then through his professional development working in the field of improving prison systems, always striving for int...

We have heard about positive parenting before, but what is truly involved?  Debbie Godfrey brings an interesting perspective with “peace begins at home”.  She shares her inspiring story about how she first learned to parent better when she was seeking refuge with her children at a women’s shelter from her abusive husband.  She realized that yelling at and threatening her children were not effectiv...

Meet Robert A. Belle, a professional accountant who has become an accomplished author, transformational speaker, and mentor, especially for men who are struggling with their identities, families, and careers.  His fascinating journey has taken him from Kenya, where he was born, to the Caribbean where he grew up, and then back to Africa.  He teaches that there are 3 key core pillars for a person’s...

John Verrico is a humorist, torchbearer, problem solver, and motivational speaker who will inspire you with his story of going from being picked on in school, becoming a student wrestler, then a disco dance instructor, to a public affairs specialist with a very successful career in the U. S. Navy in media, community, and employee relations.  He teaches how to keep your motivational TORCH burning. ...

Marnie Swedberg shares her vast experiences as a Christian women’s leadership mentor, founder and director of WomenSpeakers.com, author of 13 “how to” books, host of her own #1 ranked blog talk radio show, and keynote speaker for organizations around the world.  Her journey took her through many valleys, but she overcame obstacles through her faith and using the gifts and callings of God.  Her pro...

Two-time breast cancer survivor, Charlene Kehoe shares her heartfelt story of her life-long devotion to helping cancer patients and then becoming one.  She promised her father who had prostate cancer that she would do what she could to support cancer patients.  True to her word, Charlene started a cancer support group to help cancer patients in her home area, the U. S. Virgin Islands.  By the time...

Can you live happily after the age of 40 in love, relationships, and your career?  Meet Tamika Michelle Johnson, who answers this question with a resounding “YES!”. She is an attorney who has become a female empowerment speaker for women near or over 40.  She shares her inspiring story of transforming from a state of depression and despair to marrying her husband and business partner and having ch...

How do you heal after the death of a child?  Grief specialist & author Peggy Green shares her inspiring story of her journey toward healing after losing 2 children & about her book Life After Child Loss.  She uses her vast experience in business & marketing & as a wellness coach & personal trainer to help others.  Peggy’s mantra is “You have at least one person to live a full l...

Certified leadership coach Jerry Fu specializes in conflict resolution and shares how you can be free from the fear of conflict. He encourages you that “hard conversations don’t have to be hard” and gives you suggestions on how to navigate difficult personal and professional relationships.  Instead of putting off important conversations, being resentful, or rationalizing our frustrations, Jerry mo...

The father and son team of Mark & John Cronin are a living inspiration to us all.  They focus on happiness and gratitude!  Together they founded and operate an extremely successful company – John’s Crazy Socks – which earned $3 million in its first 3 years. John has Down’s Syndrome and is the company’s “chief happiness officer” with over 200,000 social media followers.  Listen to how they achi...

A top fear for many people is public speaking.  My guest Peter George is an experienced public speaking coach, author, and speaker.  He shares how he has successfully overcome his challenges with two childhood speech impediments – a lisp & a stutter – as well as shyness to help others become better public speakers and resonate with their audiences.  For more than 15 years, he has helped others...

Author and emotional eating expert Tricia Nelson candidly shares how she was able to lose 50 pounds after spending over three decades studying, identifying and healing the underlying causes of emotional eating.  She explains the anatomy of an emotional eater & why dieting is just a superficial solution.  She gives us some of the steps that we can start implementing from her #1 best-selling boo...

What do you do when your doctor tells you that you are slowly going blind? Entrepreneur and author Mark Valenziano shares his inspirational story of how he has been able to succeed and flourish despite years of slowly going blind.  He invented techniques to deal with helplessness and self-doubt. His book Outsmarting Uncertainty - Create Your Best Life Amid Chaos & Anxiety will motivate you too...

Author William Donaldson shares about his book Estimated Time of Departure: How I Talked My Parents to Death: A Love Story.  He relates his journey of helping his parents and others, including himself, come to grips with the reality and inevitability of death.   As his parents aged, he was there to help steer them to make decisions about dying. He gives us hope that death should not be feared, and...

Scott Jeffrey Miller is an award-winning and best-selling author and podcast host with over 8 million listeners – Franklin Covey on Leadership .  He shares how he has been a life-long stutterer and has had to work hard to overcome stuttering and achieve success.  His over 25-year career started out with being fired, but his expertise has developed into one of leadership.  He gives us hope for deve...

What does a parent do when a teacher labels your 7-year-old son as “the worst child ever”? Lois Letchford searched for ways to help her son.  Now a dyslexia and literacy problem solver as well as an author, she shares her hopeful story of how she became a literacy specialist after helping her son to learn to read.   He was eventually diagnosed with dyslexia, a learning disorder that causes people...

An award-winning author of over 30 books, Allen Klein loves to share how humor plays such an important role for our good health and mental well-being.   He is a self-proclaimed “jollytologist”, a person who specializes in laughter and humor. It all started with his first book titled The Healing Power of Humor, which he wrote in 1989 after his wife died, recounting how humor had helped him get thro...

Afflicted for years with severe depression, anxiety and chronic physical illness, Staci Diffendafer suffered greatly.  She shares about how she lived on ever-increasing amounts of medication to ease her symptoms but how medication alone was not the true way to full healing.  As a Christian, she participated in the yearlong national Christian 12- step program Celebrate Recovery and credits her invo...

Known as “The Champions Coach”, Kyle J. Sullivan shares how he unleashed the champion within himself to become a husband, father, youth pastor and then establish his own coaching business. He passionately talks about the stage in his life when he was using drugs and drug dealing and how he overcame that.  He emphasizes that each of his life stages has enabled him to become better and stronger to t...

Veronica Williams is a master certified life coach, keynote speaker, certified facilitator and an influencer for women and married couples.  She motivates us with her personal story of hope about waiting until she was 30 years old to get married.  Happily married and a mother, Veronica epitomizes the successful woman who waits on the Lord.  She encourages young women to develop their faith, confid...

A nationally board-certified health and wellness coach and university teacher in that field, Emily Marquis shares her personal story of how she experienced much emotional, physical, and mental abuse and pain but is now able to provide hope for others.  Emily is a true expert in her field, with a master's degree in health & wellness coaching, NAHU certification in employee wellness, and 10...

Meet communication coach Tiffany Foote, “The Fearless Millennial”, who shares her story of hope in overcoming the fear of public speaking and living fearlessly.  In a society enmeshed in social media, good communication skills have been lost.  As a communication coach, she is passionate about helping millennials (and others) learn to speak up, establish credibility with their audience, and speak b...

Prompted by his teenage son asking "Why do you always have to be so negative?", my guest Steven Crane spent essentially all of 2020 exploring and ultimately answering that question - and others. The result was his book I Can Appreciate That, which is a collection of essays exploring episodes from his life (from his complicated medical history, and losing loved ones to cancer, to career c...