Authoring Life

We are different people with different emotions and approaches, which makes life much more interesting. Alicia Dunams and Darcy Luoma, the author of Thoughtfully Fit, explore the framework that Darcy created so we can train our minds to be thoughtfully fit. They delve into setting boundaries and putting needs and desires first without being selfish. They talk about life lessons and coaching philosophies that would move us to the core and elaborated on how we could handle life to practice endurance in a unique and balanced way. Darcy also shares personal experiences, concrete strategies we could execute, and tools we could utilize to overcome obstacles. 

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Leaders need to be many things, and one of the most important traits a leader needs is humility. An effective leader needs to display humility and respect for self-worth. Alicia Dunams engages author, CEO, and academic Marilyn Gist in a conversation on leadership styles. Through her book, The Extraordinary Power of Leader Humility, she shows how humility is a must not just for business leaders but across all sectors. Marilyn discusses how effective leaders help educate and develop their followers and bring about necessary change. Learn how to be a humble leader with this talk. 

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When inspiration strikes, don’t give in to fear. Trust your cape. This is the lesson Rebecca Powers shares with Alicia Dunams as they sit down and talk about her life journey. They talk about the writing process, finishing your work and putting your ego aside. Rebecca also talks about what she learned from running and eventually letting go of Impact Austin, a women’s collective giving organization that serves Central Texas nonprofits. Tune in to pick a few gold nuggets from Rebecca’s powerful insights on collective giving, servant leadership and philanthropy.

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Emerging as a college student struggling to make it on her own in New York City, Destiny Maria’s world was turned upside down when she learned that her partner withheld his STD status from her until she tested positive herself. Her book, It Started with a Green Dress, shares her experience of being diagnosed with the disease, her quest for justice to find a silver lining with her diagnosis, and depicts a ruthless stigma thousands face. On today’s show, she joins Alicia Dunams to share her book-writing process and how it paved the way for her transformation, gaining self-forgiveness and self-acceptance in the end.

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Everybody's got a book inside of them waiting to come out. After meeting Alicia Dunams at a women's circle and joining the Bestseller in a Weekend course, Crystal Dawn Church finally decided to write down her own story of childhood abuse and addiction and how she moved from where she was to where she is now. The process was the next step to her catharsis, helping her in her healing and journey. Crystal is the Chief Dreamer at Dreamweaver Consulting. Today, she sits down with Alicia once more, this time to talk about her book, The Evolution of Dreamweaver: 7 Steps to Delivering on Your Dreams, the process she went through to write it, and the power of going after your dreams - dreaming it, declaring it, and delivering it.

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We make about 35,000 decisions every day, and most of those are mundane and don’t even matter, such as what color of shirt to put on or which shoes to wear. Only about 1% to 2% of those decisions are life-changing and life-altering, and most of them are split-second decisions. Dr. Geoffrey Mount Varner says if you learn to improve your split-second decisions, you improve your decision-making IQ overall. He joins Alicia Dunams today to talk about how to train your brain to make split-second decisions, looking at the concepts presented in his book, Training Your mind for Split-Second Decisions. Dr. Varner is a Crisis and Decisions Expert, an ER physician, a bestselling author, and a public speaker.

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A lot of people don't know how to discover their courage but it doesn’t mean it’s not there. Alicia Dunams' guest today is Kai Hayes, the author of Lion at Heart: Discovering Courage and Greatness Within. Lion at Heart helps you find the strength to discover you are a warrior in life. In this episode, Kai shares her story of being an impoverished child in the Philippines. Eventually, she had to become the sole breadwinner for her family. Listen as she turns her breakdowns into powerful breakthroughs to achieving financial success. You can do the same! 

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We all have an innate miracle mentality within us. It's only when the people around us become the opposition to our mission by making us doubt ourselves and telling us to "get real'' that we lose it. Alicia Dunams' guest is Tim Storey, the acclaimed author of The Miracle Mentality. In this episode, you'll get a sneak peek from the author himself on Chapter 3 of the book entitled "Activating the Magical in Your Life." Tim also shares his story on why he wrote the book, his favorite lessons from it, and his advice for aspiring authors who would also like to share stories of their own. Tune in and be inspired to take back the magic in your life. 

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Leadership has to be about you. If you want to be a better leader, you need to know who you truly are. If you don't, you will end up adopting a masquerade that prevents you from establishing authentic connections with your followers. Today's guest is Minter Dial, an international professional speaker, author, and consultant in the worlds of leadership branding and digital strategy. Minter discusses with Alicia Dunams the importance of authenticity in your leadership, how pragmatism helps lead you to success, and why you should allow yourself to be imperfect while striving to be the best. Join in the conversation and discover how to tap into yourself and bring out the leader in you. 

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People who have no access learn to navigate in the dark. Instead of letting yourself become a victim to your circumstances, you can actually see it as your edge that you can leverage to pave your own path to success. This message speaks to anyone who is deprived of access in any manner because of their gender, skin color, or immigrant status. But it speaks in a much louder volume to those who can tick all the boxes of the minority status checklist. Being an immigrant woman of color had not been easy for Hang Black, but she used the resilience she built from that experience to climb her personal vista. Through her book, Embrace Your Edge, she uses her voice to inspire others who are experiencing the same disadvantages to break through the barriers of entry into the ranks of leadership and make diversity and inclusion a tangible reality in the workplace. Join in as Hang hangs with Alicia Dunams in this insightful and exceptionally relevant conversation.

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