In this episode, Mary Markham’s guest, Sam Ferres, shares how she struggled with confidence her entire life. She remembers back when she was about three or four years old and actually remembers doubting herself quite a lot. What she thought was being shy and an introvert, was that she had real confidence issues and anxiety from moving to five different schools, witnessing bullying and trying to fit in.

She suffered insomnia during her teen years, which led to suffering with imposter syndrome, everyone else is better and has it all figured out. This caused her to work longer and harder, around the clock, which exacerbated the issues.

Although she was at the top of her game of high performance at the age of 25 with a six figure salary, she still believed she wasn’t good enough or as good as everybody else.

Sam’s identity crisis which she describes was attached to her job changed when she had a little boy. As her son woke up 15 to 20 minutes around the clock, she became more fatigued, depressed and anxious.

As this went on for months, his health issues became the center of her life. Listen how she journeyed through the health challenges he faced and how she drew that line in the sand and looked for the silver lining through all of the challenges her family had experienced.

TAKEAWAYS:

ABOUT SAM FERRES:

Sam Ferres is a Confidence Coach for women entrepreneurs who are looking to hit $10k+ months with ease.

She is the founder of the Confidence Breakthrough Method that helps entrepreneurs to break through self-doubt, smash their income ceiling and show up unapologetically so they can create a huge impact in the world.

Sam is a Rapid Transformational Therapist and certified coach with 20 years’ experience coaching and training leaders to reach their full potential. She now brings her vast coaching experience to entrepreneurs to help them remove their mindset blocks.

She lives and breathes her methods which is how she smashed through her own income limits and earned 5 figures within 5 months of her new niche. Most of her clients also skyrocket their confidence and income, and sign up more clients with ease in the time they work with her.

Sam is a published author, nature loving Mum of one who lives in Sydney with her gorgeous family.

Sam’s legacy is to help one million women. If you know someone who needs to hear this message, please share this episode with her.

Learn more about SAM FERRES at:

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.samanthaferres.com.au

FB Group: The Confident Entrepreneur https://www.facebook.com/groups/skyrocketyourconfidence

To connect more with Mary Markham:

Spiritual Life Coach

Website: www.maryamarkham.com

IG: maryamarkhamlifecoach

FB: Mary A Markham Spiritual Life Coaching

PODCAST: Inspirational Visions Starting Over

When you STOP caring about other people’s opinions, you OWN YOUR LIFE!

HONOR YOUR JOURNEY

Listen to how today’s guest Ashley Maas went from jobless, no income with 1 year old twins, feeling unfulfilled, lost, scared and truly afraid of the unknown, to being a single mom with three beautiful children, and an obsession with personal development that lead her to becoming a successful entrepreneur.

This amazingly single mom was tired of feeling shame and guilt for wanting more out of her life, so she took steps, invested into herself, and started building an online brand and business that aligned with her journey.

She identified her limiting beliefs and found herself stepping into a brand new power where she discovered her voice, passions and goals.

This incredible woman began abundancemovementboxes.com

DO WHAT WORKS FOR YOU!

Ashley is far from over. She is on a mission to raise awareness around Domestic Abuse to help every woman feel empowered and accomplish their dreams and desires.

TAKEAWAYS:

ABOUT ASHLEY:

ASHLEY MAAS CONTACT INFO:

www.abundancemovementboxes.com

IG: @theashleymaas

Tik Tok:@amaasterpiece

MARY A MARKHAM CONTACT INFO:

Mary A Markham

Spiritual Life Coach

www.maryamarkham.com

IG: maryamarkhamlifecoach

FB: Mary A Markham Spiritual Life Coaching

PODCAST: Inspirational Visions Starting Over

Have you ever gone to a funeral and it changed your life? Or, maybe a quote caught your eye and changed your vision?

Today’s guest, Benji Copeland, did both! After attending his grandfather’s funeral and seeing this quote, “You haven’t experienced life until you’ve been to a funeral.” From that moment, Benji had a spiritual transformation and his life and vision changed.

His vision, creativity and intuition lead him to starting Third Eye Marketing business and the Power of 3 Podcast.

What is Third Eye Marketing? Using your intuition, building connections and creating a life of Health + Wealth = Happiness.

Listen as Benji shares his business and personal tips on, “how you do one thing is how you do everything” and discover how to use his 3 step process to be successful in life.

FEAR IS THE DEVIL’S GREATEST ILLUSION

Belief is irresistible. When you believe in your product and/or services, and people sense that it is irresistible, truly irresistible, they want a piece of that belief.

ACT OUTSIDE THE BOX

Listen as Benji shares incredible insights throughout this episode, as well as in his podcast, The Power of 3. Benji is all about obtaining & retaining freedom. Learn how Benji’s daily routines help him both in his personal and professional life.

Benji Copeland is a visionary investor from Melbourne, Australia. He specializes in helping health and fitness professionals get more high value leads, on demand and predictably using Third Eye Marketing.

POWERFUL QUOTES:

"You haven't experienced life until you've been to a Funeral."

"How you do one thing is how you do everything!"

"Fear is the Devil's greatest dissolution!"

TIPS:

Personal Tips:

1. Health - Start your day by focusing on your health (journal, mediate, exercise, walk, read)

2. Wealth - Work on business or profession for a few hours

3. Happiness - go out and spend time with friends or family

To grow your business, ask yourself these three questions:

1. What is it you could talk about all day long with someone and not even get paid for it?

2. Who is your audience?

3. Do you have a system to turn connections into customers?

CONTACT INFO:

Benjamin Copeland - Digital Social Media Consultant

Founder @ Copeland Consultings

www.benjicopeland.com/thirdeyemarketing

https://anchor.fm/thepowerof3

+1 647 741 4911

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

The Power of Three FB page

IG: Benji.Copeland

Have you hit rock bottom, are settling for mediocre or working your life away? Or, ever thought, “I just can’t do this anymore? I just want to give up on everything, everyone and even life?” STOP RIGHT THERE! Listen to today’s guest, Sarah Liebenthal as she shares her inspiring story of going from ROCK BOTTOM to multi-preneur.

This recovering workaholic used her lowest point in life to propel her life forward into the woman she is today.

EVERY WOMAN IS MEANT TO DO SOMETHING AMAZING

For many years, Sarah thought that if she just worked a little more, achieved a little more, did a little more, and was a little more to everyone; she would finally be good enough to love herself, and be loved. She thought that she had to be everything to everyone, to be worthy of unconditional love.

Sarah was settling as a number one dispatcher and police officer and her fear of commitment and money was keeping her dream of being a lawyer, just that, a dream. She worked full time and three different part time jobs, about 110 hours a week, until she hit rock bottom.

ROCK BOTTOM to SheCAN and BEYOND…

In 2018, Sarah’s people pleasing, depression, anxiety, and inability to cope with her trauma led her down a spiral of self-sabotage, workaholism, and over-commitment, when she hit full on rock bottom.

A life changing decision was made on April 1, 2019, when Sarah committed to GROWING in her own life instead of TAKING her own life. And, she hasn’t looked back since.

"Busyness can only exist as busyness of the mind. Being busy makes it impossible to do any sort of deep work."

Sarah is a life and transformation coach who specializes in helping women who struggle with developing healthy boundaries, and in giving up the myth of busyness.

Planning and organizing events, including women’s empowerment events, is also Sarah’s specialty.

LET IT BE EASY

Make dreams come true and don’t settle. Sarah is doing what she loves as a coach, event planner and going to law school.

Be unstoppable and do what YOU are meant to do!

This incredible woman is soon to be married and mom of a blended household with two beautiful daughters, one by blood and one by love. She is from Southeastern Wisconsin.

TAKEAWAYS:

Contact information:

Email:  [email protected]

Website:  SheCANcoaching.com

HAPPILY EVER AFTER BEYOND DIVORCE & MOTHERHOOD

Happily ever after begins today with how it is not necessary to live in the same city, nor state or even country to help reclaim independence and create a future filled with success, peace and happiness.

Today’s guest, Alice McDonald is an International Separation & Divorce Coach helping women from around the world including Australia, the USA, China, Indonesia, Canada and South Africa. She uses her experiences to empower women to move beyond divorce and motherhood with their own version of success & happiness. She works with separated or divorced women with older teens or adult children, who are ready to find themselves again, confidently reclaim their independence & create a future filled with success, peace & happiness.

Alice’s starting over journey was a “double whammy experience.”  Her marriage of 23 years came to an end at a time when her children were in their late teens, in which an unplanned future began to look like, having no idea what it would look like. Her duties changed and she went from married mum to single empty nester.

After spending time crying on the floor of the shower, trying to keep her sh*t together for her kids, Alice has come out of the other side of her divorce, happier than ever and enjoying creating her life by design. She had a clean slate and a new story to write.

Alice’s brokenness wasn’t going to be her story. She made it clear and knew she needed to get through it.

“What do I want my life to look like going forward? And how do I create that?” “Just getting through the day is really freakin hard sometimes. And you want to have those pockets of joy.” Alice knew at some point she would get through it because “People get through it.”

She wanted to be in the best position possible, rather than digging herself a deeper hole. First she sorted out the really crucial things in her life and knew it was incredibly important to build a team of people around her. Alice had already been working with a psychologist at the time and then needed to have a good physician to look after her health.

Setting a timeline for the next year or so, as she knew there would be times where she wouldn’t be able to keep her momentum for herself. She hired a coach and met with her once a month, giving her the things she wanted her to help her keep on track with. That was one of the best decisions she ever made. This kept her on track.

Alice wanted her turning point to be her success story. So she kept creating and looking for things that made her happy, really tapping into who she was as a person.

“Do something that brings you JOY!”

Dancing first thing in the morning, is what Alice does, that brings her JOY!  Another thing that brings her joy is flowers.

“I frickin love flowers.”

She began doing more and more things that make her feel happy and make her everyday happy. Because this is her life.

She lives in sunny Perth, Western Australia and has two older children - one adult son at university, a daughter just about to finish highschool and a furchild; a five year old rescue dog, Abbey.

TIPS:

Contact Info:

IG: alice__mcdonald

Email: [email protected]

How do you START OVER again? After losing her dad and her job within weeks, today's guest Brenda Cortez starts over again. Starting Over for Brenda is stretching herself as an author, entrepreneur and making a difference with her connections and saving lives.

Brenda is truly an inspiration and continues to HELP OTHERS WITH LOVE by bringing awareness to being a living kidney donor or helping others share their story.

If you thought about being a living donor but have questions, listen to how a decision to help someone with love, literally changed Brenda Cortez’s life. This act of kindness became a decision to save another woman’s life, which not only saved a life, but continues to CHANGE many lives, and may just change yours.

HELP OTHERS WITH LOVE

Brenda now has 10 publications and was inspired to write her first book, “My Mom is Having Surgery”, after her daughter centered her college entrance essay around her kidney donation and the inspiration she felt from it. This incredible woman is such a strong advocate for living donation awareness. Because of this advocacy and her passion for helping others, Brenda came up with the slogan, HOWL: Help Others with Love. Howl the Owl has traveled the world and continues to bring smiles to living donors and their families.

Help Others with Love is what keeps Brenda inspired and motivated to do all she does. As unpredictable things in life happen, you can either give up or keep going. After the loss of her dad and job, Brenda knew she had a purpose and to keep going, she was reminded to let go and let God.

Trust that I'm where I'm supposed to be and just let go let God

Her purpose was not only to share her story, but create a compilation of twenty-five incredible donor and/or recipient stories “Because of Organ Donations” which became her 10th publication and continues to Help Others with Love. These stories will inspire and change your life and awareness of what it truly means to be a living donor.

Brenda’s passion for helping others has been taken to a whole new level.

KINDNESS ALWAYS WINS!

Brenda has written nine children's books; “My Mom is Having Surgery,” “Howl Gets a Heart,” “Howl Helps Bella,” “Howl Helps Others,” “Howl Learns About Kidneys & Dialysis,” “Howl Goes to the Races,” “Howl Loves his new Liver,” “Howl Competes at the Transplant Games” and Howl Inspires Mr. Ynott.”

Connections are important for Brenda, as a writer and as a way to Help Others with Love.  When writing “Howl Goes to the Races” she paired up with Joey Gase, a race car driver in the NASCAR Xfinity and Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series, who’s mom gave the gift of life as an organ donor, and is the reason behind Joey’s passion to honor and help those affected by organ donation.

We all have a story and each story connects us with someone else.

Make a difference and be a DONOR today, you just might save a life!

Don’t be afraid to reach out and help others! Trust the peace you’re given!

Order a copy of her books and make a difference, as partial proceeds of all website sales go to Donate Life America

Take-aways:

KEEP SMILING

Have you ever thought about rebuilding yourself through property? Julie Wyatt, from Perth, Australia has been on a journey of rebuilding herself. After a divorce that left her physically, emotionally and mentally broken, she went after her love for renovations, and entered a competition that changed her life. This competition took Julie from a broken life to fixing broken houses.

However, before renovating old and worn out homes into beautiful places to live, Julie began her career as a registered nurse. For about 38 years she had the opportunity to work in some isolated areas, from being a flight nurse with a Royal Flying Doctor Service, which is a remote area retrieval service, to working in hospitals.

BELIEVE IN YOURSELF

Her renovating journey was 12 months of rebuilding her confidence, rebuilding her thought process about who she was, and what she could do. It was deep and challenging in every way, but worth it!

The unknown was challenging and when not understanding at first why she was cutting pictures out of magazines and creating a vision board, this uncertainty led to rebuilding a broken life by renovating broken property into beautiful places to live.

Julie definitely has a desire to fix the broken. Her love for renovating the old into something beautiful has generated over $1 million in profit on a part time basis. She has turned her renovations into Air BnB’s and has been featured in “Your Investment Property Magazine” and Real Estate Talk.com.au.

FIXING BROKEN HOUSE AND REBUILDING BROKEN LIVES

While every house and every person has a story, it's all about how you recoup and move on. The basics and principles are the same. You need to declutter from the inside out. It’s not just renovating property, but changing your mindset as well.

When teaching someone about renovations, it's always the nuts and bolts of renovating and how to do this and how to do that. But it's really more about mindset, and how you actually teach someone how to do this, is by not losing sight of what it is that you need to do.

Julie thinks one thing COVID has taught us right, is that we don't have to be hamstrung by where we are. You can do anything. You can coach virtually, and look at someone's house and get a pretty good idea what their house looks like, even though it might be in a different country.

Don’t let the distance stop you from reaching out to Julie. The basics and the principles of renovating remain the same and seeing it virtually is no problem at all.

TIPS:

Contact info:

www.juliewyatt.com.au

[email protected]

Have you ever lost a baby or child with little or no support? Today’s guest, Sharna Southan is a Soulprenuer, which is a Soulful Entrepreneur helping women through pregnancy loss and women who want to be in control of their finances, happiness, time and their future.

After suffering her own pregnancy loss and finding no support for herself, she began to research, and learn about self healing. She became a Life Coach, NLP Practitioner & Self Healing Spiral Practitioner before starting the Institute of Healing through Pregnancy Loss in 2020.

Sharna is unstoppable! As she continued to bring joy to other women after their loss, she stepped into a teaching role. She now teaches other women, who have a new purpose after loss and want to create values aligned for themselves through her Signature Pregnancy Loss System & Soulful Business Model.

By teaching other women through her program, there is more support for women all over the world. No one should ever feel like they are alone in this process nor feel they have to suffer in silence.

YOU’RE NOT MOVING ON YOU’RE MOVING FORWARD

By staying in grief some women feel like that is their way to remember their loved one, their little baby. But, by moving forward with their life, they are able to honor their little one so much more. Memories will be so much more beautiful. They won't be clouded in grief and sadness. They would be able to look back on and with so much more happiness. Allow yourself that space to feel what you need to feel but know that you're not going to be moving on, you’re moving forward.

YOU’LL NEVER FORGET

The one thing that gave Sharna peace was saying the “Serenity Prayer” every day in the morning and nighttime. It gave her permission to forget everything else and focus on herself.

THE PRIVILEGE OF A LIFETIME IS BEING WHO YOU ARE

The message she wants to leave: She is stepping outside the box and building more leaders in a space where her vulnerability and experiences fuel her mission.

BE WHERE YOU ARE

TIPS:

Allow yourself to have time with yourself

Spend time with yourself and ask yourself what feeling you’re experiencing

Slow down and sit with yourself

You’ll never forget

Sit in meditation

Journal your thoughts to get all emotions out of your head

There is no timeframe for grieving

CONTACT INFO:

Social Media IG: @sharnasouthan

Today’s guest, Terri Pilawa was on top of the world. She had a great job, an amazing son, met her husband and was in the best shape of her life. Everything was going well until she felt like she was suffocating and couldn’t breath. Terri was in denial and couldn’t believe this was happening to her.

After suffering from a misdiagnosis of adult asthma for 5 years and many trips to the emergency room, Terri was diagnosed with NSIP Pulmonary Fibrosis in 2012. After days, months, years of not knowing if and when she would survive, she believed that “Giving up is too easy” and fought the good fight for her life.

KEEP FAITH ~ KEEP FIGHTING

Terri shares her starting over again and again journey as she fought for her life to the end. Hear the incredible details of how she felt like she was drowning or suffocating daily, and hung on until the end, begging for lungs.

ONE LIFE FOR ANOTHER

Just when she thought her life was coming to an end, having her DNR (Do not Resuscitate) in order, and having trouble breathing when responding to the nurse, “I need my lungs!” "I NEED MY LUNGS!" Shortly thereafter that night, on June 24, 2015, at 10:00 p.m. her doctor called and said she had lungs for her, not a perfect situation, but had lungs for Terri.

The celebration of yelling and cheers were put on hold as she was too weak and getting too excited would use too much of her limited supply of oxygen. By midnight her donor was off the use of a ventilator support and by 3:00 a.m. the journey of a 13 hr surgery, Terri was getting lungs.

What became a tragic end of a life for one family, was a gift of life for another. Terri was fortunate enough to meet her donor’s family and hear how her Donor, Maria Quinteros, a 22 year old woman, said, “YES” to being a donor, saved Terri’s life and now lives inside her, celebrating the gift of life every single day.

Terri is truly blessed and grateful for her second chance of life.

TAKEAWAYS

Check out her story along with other inspiring author stories in “Because of Organ Donation” by Brenda E. Cortez and H.O.W.L. the Owl

If you need help or would like to DONATE to Onebreathfoundation, please go to: www.onebreathfoundation.org

CONTACT:

Terri Pilawa at: [email protected]

Website: www.onebreathfoundation.org

Have you ever said to yourself, “Here I go AGAIN!” Or, asked yourself, “How many times must I start over again?” Today’s guest describes her “Starting Over” as really “Starting Again and again and again” journey.

Christine Bannister’s journey to excellence has been fueled by challenges. After a rough divorce, single parenting and working in the 911 environment where traumatic events were commonplace, and a subsequent run-in with PTSD; she solidified her calling to bravely meet people in their chaos.

Her busy life can create a busy mindset, so she begins by sharing how she prepares her day to stay focused for the unknown busyness ahead of her.

STARTING AGAIN AND AGAIN AND AGAIN

Christine doesn’t waste any time digging deep as she shares how starting over can be a decision one day, and a new journey the next. It can also be a marathon of small little steps, like just doing the next right thing today, because it's all you can do. She feels blessed to have all of those starting overs in her life. In her early 20’s, she had a great career and ended up meeting a man, getting married and having two children. Unfortunately, there were a lot of challenges that ravaged her marriage, and it quickly came to an end. So in that space of not only starting over as a married woman, and a mother, she then subsequently had to start over as a single mom, and a divorced woman. And just dealt with a lot of challenges and emotions in that space.

GROW, LEARN and EVOLVE

Christine changed and grew as her life became very different than it was. She found herself in the space of starting over again, a beautiful new season, as she puts it. Starting over as a family, a new business and about to launch her Courage life coaching business, “Christine Jean Coaching.” She shares how God is opening doors and using her to speak truth and life into people.

Not only are new opportunities coming forward for her business, but after not dating for a very long time, she is now in her 40’s and starting over with love, and trying to figure that out again.

She balances life by prioritizing her faith, single parenting her two teenagers- Chloe and Eagan, spending time in her garden, and building a life and an empire with her partner, Aaron.

Looking for a Courage Coach? Contact Christine and mention you heard her on this podcast and she will offer a discount for her coaching services.

Christine is humble and adds there is no competition here between us as coaches. What is important is that you talk with a coach who resonates with you and your journey. It’s about helping each other through our own stories, life experiences and knowledge.

You can find Christine on FB, Tik-Tok, or Insta @Christine Jean Coaching.

Connect with Christine to schedule a Coaching Discovery session on her website at: www.christinejean.net

Take-aways: