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I love this verse from Isaiah 60:1 in the Bible: “Arise, shine: for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you.”

It’s one of my favorites for two reasons. #1 – The phrases make up two songs of Handel’s Messiah, which I’ve enjoyed singing many times over the past 30+ years with different church and community choirs. #2 – The message is simply brilliant. I believe we are all here to shine. Granted, sometimes, you have to go through some darkness to get there. Just like the sun rises each day to bring light into the world. As human beings, we also go through dark times. The blessing comes when we emerge from the darkness to embrace the light, rather than staying locked up in the gloomy dungeon of our mind.

Today on the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* I talk about a time when my mind tried to drag me into the darkness

* Learn how I managed to shift my mindset and what message I received in the process

* Listen to a song I wrote that expresses today’s theme – from breakdown to breakthrough

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Do you have a game plan for life? So many young adults today face hurdles because they don’t have someone in their corner who can help them unlock their potential and develop a plan to succeed. My podcast guest, Tyrone Smith, surmounted major challenges in his youth with the help of teachers and coaches to become a player in the National Football League, as well as a motivational speaker and author. He now pays it forward through the implementation of successful youth development programs in Texas and California.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast:

* Tyrone talks about why he wrote his book, “Outside the Huddle: Steps to Developing a Game Plan for Life”

* Learn about the teachers and coaches who made a positive impact on Tyrone’s life

* Why Tyrone is so passionate about his youth mentoring programs

* Tyrone shares why it’s important to talk about Black Lives Matter

Connect with Tyrone:

Website: www.tyronesmith24.com

First and Goal, Inc. www.teamfirstandgoal.org

Twitter: @tyrone24

Instagram: tyrone24_7

Linkedin: www.linkedin.com/in/tyronesmith24

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Gloria Grace Rand

Namaste and welcome to live love engage. I am Gloria Grace Rand and today I have a extra special guest on the program today. This is an amazing gentleman. His name is Tyrone Smith,

According to the Centers for Disease Control, autism affects an estimated 1 in 54 children in the United States today, causing individuals to have difficulties with social interaction and communication, noise sensitivity, sleep problems and executive function issues. For instance, young adults with autism may have challenges in obtaining a driver’s license.

While awareness of autism in children has increased over the last few decades, what’s not known is how many adults are affected by autism.

That’s something Becca Lory Hector is on a mission to address. She is an advocate for autistic adults, with the goal of spreading acceptance, building understanding, and encouraging self-advocacy.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. podcast:

* You’ll learn what autism spectrum is and how it affects people

* Becca shares how autism affected her as a child and adult, and how she finally got diagnosed on the spectrum

* Learn why autistic adults have trouble getting the help they need to function effectively

* Find out how you can use the Spoon method to get things done

Connect with Becca:

Becca’s website: https://beccalory.com/

Autism Organizations

Autism Society

The Asperberger Autism Network

Autistic Self Advocacy Network

Resources

Internet Safety Guide for people with autism spectrum disorder

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Are you a solopreneur? A 2019 study by a Boston consultancy estimated that there are nearly 42 million solo business owners in the United States. I started my business by myself in 2009, and I can tell you that I would not have survived this long if I had done everything on my own.

Today on the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* Learn why success doesn’t happen in a vacuum

* I share the different types of support that are available to you

* What comes next, after “asking for help”

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Maintaining a healthy body is important at any age, but even more so after 40. Today’s podcast guest is dedicated to helping women over 40 shape up, and lose weight for the last time. Nicole Simonin is an ACE personal Trainer, ACE health coach, licensed physical therapist assistant and former professional ballet dancer. As she talks about in this episode, Nicole had to overcome a significant health challenge in her teenage years in order to achieve her dreams.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* Nicole shares what happened the day of her illness

* How Nicole found humor in being sick

* What prompted Nicole to pursue a career in physical therapy

* Why Nicole is so passionate about helping women over 40 shape up

Connect with Nicole:

Website: https://www.nicolesimonin.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nicolesimonincoaching

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Namaste and welcome to live love engage. I am Gloria Grace Rand, your hostess with the mostess ha. I don’t know where that came from today, but I’m just declaring it. So there we go. And I am delighted to have a guest with us today. And is, she’s a really impressive woman who has overcome something and just gone on to great heights and being able to help a lot of other people in their life. Her name is Nicole Simonin, and I forget simmonin and I forgot most of the time. I’m good because I could do better with...

Life is all about unlimited possibilities. However, many times we feel like our options are limited because we let our ego get in the way of what we know to be true in our heart.

Today on the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* Learn what Unity’s Daily Word has to say about turning your dreams into reality

* I share why fear sometimes keeps me from shining my light in the world

* Why it’s important to recognize your talents, gifts and abilities

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The entrepreneurial journey is not always easy. Sometimes, you can get stuck and that’s when it’s important to get help. Empowerment Coach Artisha “Tee” Bolding went through her own challenges, and now helps entrepreneurs align their purpose and passion so they can bring their business, book or brand to life.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* Artisha shares the health crisis that prompted her to reevaluate her life

* Why Artisha decided to inspire others by becoming an author

* Artisha reflects on the Black Lives Matter movement and what needs to be done to effect change

Connect with Artisha:

Website: TBoldMedia.com

Twitter: @MissTyson

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Namaste and welcome to live love engage. I am Gloria Grace Rand. And today I get to have a guest with me on the show which is one of my favorite things to do. And this is an awesome woman who is I know is going to enlighten us a lot about a lot of different things and hopefully to empower you because that’s a little bit about what she does, but I’m getting ahead of myself. Please welcome Georgia based author and empowerment coach, Artisha T. Bolding, who is also the head of T Bold Media Group. She is best known for her loud belly laughs and her love of truth. Hopefully she’ll share that with us. And she’s also a speaker and consultant who has spent the last decade providing relationship and spiritual advice to clients, friends and even groups of teenagers. And since her early days at Howard University, she has been impacting people as it’s a serious passion for her.

I first became familiar with yoga several years ago as an exercise practice, something I used to do during a class at my local YMCA. And according to the Merriam-Webster dictionary, yoga is a system of physical postures, breathing techniques, and sometimes meditation derived from Yoga but often practiced independently especially in Western cultures to promote physical and emotional well-being. That’s definitely true, and yoga is so much more, as I learned during my interview with Stephannie Weikert. She is a Certified Yoga Therapist who helps smart, capable men and women manage stress with some of the most fundamental, yet little-known principles of yoga.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* Find out the difference between yoga exercise and yoga therapy

* Stephannie shares the personal crisis that led her to become a yoga therapist

* Why it’s important to Make Peace with Stress

* How Stephannie works with clients to help them be present, calm and confident

Connect with Stephannie:

stephannieweikert.com

Make Peace with Stress at makepeacewithstress.com.

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Gloria: Namaste. I am Gloria Grace Rand, and welcome, welcome to Live. Love. Engage. I’m delighted to be with you again and also delighted to have a guest with us. And, I just realized that I blew it because I forgot to double check how to pron...

Last week on Live. Love. Engage., I talked about the power of our thoughts to direct our beliefs and actions. In this episode, I expand on that concept by explaining how you can use affirmations to transform your life in positive ways.

Today on the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* How you can use affirmations to rewire your brain’s neural pathways

* What role emotion plays in the affirmation process

* How Gloria used affirmations during her marathon training

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Gloria: Namaste and welcome. Welcome to live, love, engage. I am Gloria Grace Rand. And today I am going to be following up on the last episode that I did, where I talked about positive thoughts. And I want to go a little bit deeper into talking about affirmations. And how they can be used and a little bit about why they work, because I think it’s important.

[00:00:39] And I want to share with you how I’ve used them in my life, in a, you know, real practical way, actually. So, let me just to go back in and talk about a little bit. So I talked about in the last episode that I did by myself, where I talked about the positive thoughts, a thought is just a thought and a thought can be changed.

[00:01:07] And I mentioned that you can… when you’re having something in your life that is not working for you. And a lot of times it’s because we have these old stories and these old thoughts that are running through our heads that don’t serve us. And so one way to be able to rewire our brain, because that’s essentially what we need to do is we need to re rewire the neural pathways.

[00:01:36] And, I’ve, I’ve read, I’ve read a couple great books in the last year about, how the brain works.

How often do you practice the power of positive thinking? The thoughts we think create our reality, so if we want positive outcomes in our life, it’s important to think positive thoughts. This is especially true when it comes to facing challenges, as marketing & operations professional Francisco Oller Garcia explained to me during our recent interview.

On this episode of the Live. Love. Engage. Podcast:

* Francisco explains why he’s a big advocate for transparency and empathy when you communicate

* How Francisco uses social media as a catalyst for developing deeply meaningful relationships

* What to do when you have moments of self-doubt

* Why a positive mindset is so important to deal with life’s challenges

Connect with Francisco:

LinkedIn

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Gloria Grace Rand: [00:00:00] Namaste, and welcome to Live. Love. Engage.. I am Gloria Grace Rand, and delighted to be with you again and bringing to you another. Interview with an interesting person. And I’m so blessed to be able to have the most amazing guests on the show. And, this young man is no exception. His name is Francisco Oller Garcia and he is a marketing and operations professional who works with forward thinking consultants, advisors, and executives to design innovative group health strategies that measurably improve health outcomes and deliver a strong ROI. And within his work, he pierces expertise in healthcare with, uh, his passion for helping others. And that’s what has allowed him to actually excel as a su...