Surviving Trauma: Stories of Hope

Send us Fan Mail I am delighted to be joined on the podcast by the incredible Dr. Marni Hill Foderaro.   Marni is an award-winning author, speaker and educator. Marni’s 2020 Best Books Award Winning Spiritual fiction “God Came to My Garage Sale” is prominently endorsed by James Redfield, best selling author of “The Celestine Prophecy” series of books. Marni’s latest 5-book series  “True Deceit Fal...

Send us Fan Mail I am thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the phenomenal Ana Lennyr.  Ana is a Life Strategist Specializing in Relationships and Parenting Mentoring and an Anti-Depression Expert. Ana believes that by addressing the root cause that holds people back from experiencing true love, I help you remove any excuses and replace them with reasons and opportunities so you can never be afr...

Send us Fan Mail I am thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the all-inspiring Ana Lennyr.  Ana is a Life Strategist Specializing in Relationships and Parenting Mentoring, as well as an Anti-Depression Expert. Ana believes that by addressing the root cause which holds people back, she removes any and all excuses and replaces them with reasons and opportunities.  Ana Lennyr went through a few hard...

Send us Fan Mail I am thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the very beautiful and multi-faceted author and fitness model, Jewels.  She is a woman who has lived two lives in one lifetime. The first part was a life of childhood abuse and trauma which grew into the full-blown disease of alcoholism. Her life was out of control and she was circling the drain. The second life focuses on how she urgen...

Send us Fan Mail I am thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the courageous Amy Nordhues.  Amy Nordhues is a survivor of both childhood sexual abuse and sexual abuse as an adult at the hands of a mental health professional. She is a passionate Christ-follower and expert on the healing God provides. She has a BA in psychology with minors in sociology and criminology. Her devotions have been publis...

Send us Fan Mail I am thrilled to be joined on the podcast by the lovely Susan Angel Miller from her home in Milwaukee.  Following the death of Susan’s teenage daughter, Laura and her own health crisis, she craved a roadmap to help her navigate a world that she no longer recognized. Sharing her story with friends and then writing her memoir allowed her to craft a narrative she could live with. She...

Send us Fan Mail I am excited to welcome back Marina Yanay-Triner to the podcast this week.  Marina is a transformational and compassionate somatic coach with ten years of experience in dialogue group facilitation, working with Israeli and Palestinian conflict transformation through dialogue. She also worked at the Jerusalem rape crisis center, where she facilitated dialogue on gender, sexuality,...

Send us Fan Mail This week, I welcome the incredibly talented author Drew Paige to the podcast.  Drew grew up in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from Bradley University with a degree in psychology. She has worked in two mental health facilities as a mental health worker. Drew also worked as a foster care caseworker on the Southside and Westside of Chicago. With over ten years of ex...

Send us Fan Mail I am excited to be joined by Marina Yanay-Triner on the podcast this week.  Marina is a transformational and compassionate somatic coach with ten years of experience in dialogue group facilitation, working with Israeli and Palestinian conflict transformation through dialogue. She also worked at the Jerusalem rape crisis center, where she facilitated dialogue on gender, sexuality,...

Send us Fan Mail In this week’s episode, I am handing my podcast hosting duties over to my beautiful friend and fellow author, Jennifer Rose Asher.  Jennifer is no stranger to the podcast, and she was happy to assist me. In this episode I chat to Jennifer about my book Trauma Propels: Turning Obstacles Into Opportunities, what you can expect in the book, what benefits await you when supporting the...

Send us Fan Mail I am privileged to be joined by the inspirational author Gerard Long on the podcast this week.  Gerard Long is an author and pastor, who had a 30-year-year career in banking, was the National Director of Alpha USA for seven years and is the Founder and President of a non-profit corporation, Awakening to God Ministries. In the first week of its release, his book Living Hope was Ama...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am flying solo. I have a few things I would like to talk about. Starting with celebrating some milestones for the podcast, talking about why I am writing a book, and with October being breast cancer awareness month, I wanted to talk about cancer. As always, thank you to my listeners for joining me on this journey. Comment on the posts on Instagram, Facebook, or LinkedI...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am privileged to have Sylvester Jenkins III join me on the podcast. Sylvester is a retired Army Veteran, having served in the military for 21 years. In this episode, we will learn how he remains resilient amidst adversity. Sylvester is no stranger to this concept. He grew up as a son to a single mom and fell in with the wrong crowd until his circumstances presented him...

Send us Fan Mail This week I am excited to be joined by Andrea Medina all the way from California.  In the episode, Andrea and I chat about trauma, recovery and the concept of interconnected healing. She starts out by sharing her story and her journey of healing and recovery from verbal and emotional abuse. Andrea also gives us an insight into her upcoming book titled The Energized Self: Explorati...

Send us Fan Mail Today, I welcome Jared Altic to the podcast, and he joins me from his hometown of Kansas City, Kansas.  Jared is a husband, father of five, Bible teacher, Police Chaplain, and podcaster. He has 25 years of experience serving and counseling military and law enforcement families. In addition, he works as a minister and volunteers his time as a police chaplain at the local police dep...

Send us Fan Mail In this week's episode, I welcome Jennifer Rose Asher to the podcast. She joins me from her home in Dallas, Texas.  In the episode, Jennifer shares the story of how she became a mother. She details everything from her decision to have a child through two miscarriages and a whirlwind trip to Vietnam to find and adopt her daughter. Along the way, Jennifer and her husband tried...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, I welcome Eric “Protein” Moseley to the podcast. He joins me from his home town of Austin, Texas.  Eric, is a social impact documentary filmmaker/homeless advocate, director, author and business man who grew up in Detroit Michigan, dropped out of school, became involved with gangs, substance abuse, and eventually became homeless. Eric navigated the streets...

Send us Fan Mail In today’s episode, I welcome Alexis Smith to the podcast. She joins me from her home in Utah.  Alexis’s story started when she developed disordered eating and an unhealthy mindset in 2015. In 2017, this developed into a full blown eating disorder. On October 9th, she was formally diagnosed with anorexia. She was admitted to Primary Children's Hospital where she received an N...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome Sam "The Miracle Man" Shelly to the podcast. He joins me from New York. Sam helps the burnt-out, bottomed-out soul find relief from physical and mental suffering through ditching limiting beliefs and modern medicine myths, so they can awaken to their inner wisdom, alternative ways of healing, self-empowerment, and live a pain-free, healthy, and...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I welcome Lois Hollis to the podcast. Lois is an educator, counsellor and filmmaker. Lois Hollis was born in Baltimore, Maryland, in 1943. She started her career by volunteering as a nurse’s aide at age 12. She earned her RN from St. Joseph Hospital and achieved her BSN from the University of Pennsylvania. For thirty years, she gained experience as a nurse in open...

Send us Fan Mail Today I welcome the very chic Grace Lunika to the podcast. She joins me from her home in beautiful Cape Town. Grace is a business professional, a mom, a daughter, a sister a friend and so much more. In this episode, we discuss Grace’s journey of becoming a mom to her baby boy who blessed her with his presence for twenty four days. We delve into how Grace dealt with the pain of los...

Send us Fan Mail Today I welcome Randi-Lee Bowslaugh, who joins me from her home in Welland, Ontario. Randi-Lee is an author, a cancer survivor, kickboxing champion, mental health advocate, a mom, and so much more. In this episode, we discuss being a mom to a transgender son, his autism diagnosis, and how she and her family deals with it. Then, Randi-Lee shares her cancer story, and finally, she g...

Send us Fan Mail Today I am delighted to welcome my second expert guest to the podcast, Hazel Antiporta, who joins me from her home in Toronto, Ontario. In this episode, we discuss inner child healing and breaking generational trauma.  Hazel is a healing and transformational life coach, working as a certified Hypnotherapist, Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT) Practitioner, Neuro-linguistic Program...

Send us Fan Mail In this special episode, I am joined by, the inspiring and compassionate Martha Hoy from her home in Las Vegas, Nevada.   Martha Hoy is a registered nurse, a writer, a humanitarian, author, speaker, world traveler and founder of Mother Martha Family Foundation ("MMFF").  She is passionate about improving the lives of those in her community and in Uganda. MMFF is in partn...

Send us Fan Mail I am joined by my first expert guest in today's bonus episode, the beautiful and soulful Karen Eccles from her Pilates studio in the UK. As a Pilates expert, Karin has been teaching Pilates for over a decade, specialising in classical Pilates since 2012. Originally Contemporary trained, Karen now studies, practices, and teaches Classical Pilates since she was first introduced...