Dr. Pamela presents PURPOSE BY DESIGN

Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Martinette James who has such an amazing testimony that is sure to touch many. She grew up in the Caribbean which sounds like a dream, but it wasn’t for her which we will delve into later. Martinette is a mother of 4 beautiful children, formerly was a child educator, and is currently working in the health-care sector. She explains she is just living experiences. She also is a co-author for the international Amazon best-seller anthology book “Women of the Powervoice”

She grew up being told her voice didn’t matter, her story didn’t matter etc. As a young child which is a very molding time - paralyzed her for a time where she felt she shouldn’t speak her opinion or share what was on her mind. If this was not enough, Martinette suffered from experiences that no child should have to.

It was a vicious cycle that was brought into a failed marriage where she married a man at 18 young years of age. She was told that she was lucky she got her prior husband as she was “used goods” as she had gotten physically abused. It got so bad she contemplated taking her life, but the Lord stepped in by using her 3-year-old.

Martinette speaks on how she attracted bad things in her life due to the paradigm she was in. She was at a point where she could not look men in the eyes, and was getting beaten to a point she had to wear sunglasses to cover the bruises around her eyes. Her sister stepped in, offered to watch our guest’s children, and told her to essentially “You need to get out of here!”

When Martinette got to the United States, after about 3 weeks in a bed New York and felt no new bruises - this was so refreshing for her. She went to school and earned her degree. She ended up getting divorced and remarried to another guy - where the same tragedies happened as she was still stuck in a paradigm prison.

She thanks the pandemic for letting her find Les Brown, find her power voice, and find her destiny where her story can help others who are going through something similar.

LINKS:

Facebook: Martinette James | Facebook

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-Purpose by Design

Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Irma Matos, co-author of Women of the Power Voice as well as Boss Your Lane, she owned her own business for 33 years and now resides as a consultant for the company. She is currently writing a book called A Noble Profession - Life Lessons to Inspire your Soul and Live in Abundance.

Irma moved from Cuba being born there to the United States and currently resides in Miami as she has for the last few decades. She credits a very special friend, teacher and mentor Jean for her being where she is today. Irma was very nervous to speak English but her teacher helped her confidence-build and now she speaks perfect English and is changing people’s lives. Irma says that teachers are one of the most needed and important professions but aren’t given enough recognition.

She is a child of God, who says she is a spiritual being having a human experience. She is also a real-estate investor and missionary. Irma talks about the goodness of the Lord and how he gave Irma a god-daughter on a mission trip.

Irma shares how she got to where she is now because of Jean and how that has turned around so Irma is now carrying Jean’s legacy and helping people with her story. She went from being a quiet, focused businesswoman to having a life-changing experience at a retreat serving women and doing missions and soon joined Jon Talarico’s Thinking Into Results.

She talks about service / serving is the most important to her. She invokes the Holy Spirit when she writes to ensure that she can help people with his message - not hers. She connected to vision which led to fulfillment, and now she is living her purpose. Irma encourages you to get uncomfortable as if you keep doing what you are doing nothing is going to change.

Irma encourages to be still, and listen to your still small voice. Years ago she was going to rent a townhouse, but the still-small voice said “Don’t rent to these particular people” – and she ended up doing so anyway and it was wrong. She paid attention after that you can bet!

LINKS:

Website: ANOBLEPROFESSIONBOOK.COM

Contact Irma on the website….

Once you contact her, she’ll send you a link to make a 15 MIN APT.

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-Purpose by Design

Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Sandra Chaney -  a woman who wears many hats. She is a woman who loves deeply, she loves to laugh, spread joy, she is peace - that is who she is. She explains what we do is now who we are. Sandra talks about grounding herself in nature so she can output energy to the world. She gives back to her first, so that she can give back to others.

She shares with us about growing up young with a father who was not emotionally present, and abusive. Sandra went on a journey to figure out what love was, as all she knew was what her father gave her. She talks about how we need to love ourselves first so we can properly love others.

Sandra had an attempted suicide when things got really bad, prior to that she worked in corporate america and was known as a ‘strong black independent woman’ - but behind closed doors she was hurting.

She talks about how it takes strength and is important to be vulnerable and trudge through the mud (go deep) to work through paradigms about ourselves. It took Sandra a lot of time but she is now at a place where she can get vulnerable and let her story help others. It does in fact get tiring keeping a face, and there is power in letting your story out to the world. Once we share whatever it is that we are led to share it breaks something

Sandra teaches how God is there with and for us but he does not force anything on us and we need to advocate for ourselves. She talks about being a student of the legendary Les Brown and being a co-author in Women of the Power Voice anthology.

Lastly, she talks about self-care and being true to yourself as then you can be true to others around you.

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Links: www.sandrachaney.com

-Purpose by Design

Purpose by Design is honored to introduce ANGELA BENNETT - a best-selling author and co-author of ‘Women of the Power Voice’. She is a mother of 5 children, a resident of Sydney, Australia, speaker, and transformation coach.

Angela has such a powerful testimony of the goodness of the Lord, and this interview is sure to bless so many who are dealing or have dealt with domestic-abuse. She was a victim of that type of a relationship for a long time, and one day she came close to death. She and her former partner were in a heated moment, and he started choking Angela. She said this is the one time she audibly heard God’s voice tell her to give him a certain look, and once she did that he let go.

In time she left, and shared how she felt that God was forever with her and helping her in that difficult time. She explains that God is always chasing us and loving us and showing us mercy, grace and love. There is NOTHING we can do to make God turn his back on us. You can’t go too far with God. Angela talks about the importance of doing the internal work, the nitty-gritty that allows for change. We have a choice and the “easy” route is not the way to go as nothing will change.

Though she was out of that relationship, she had her first child and postnatal depression soon followed. She was struggling with mental illness and pressure, and tried taking her life 3 times. This amounts to 4 times that God saved Angela’s life because Angela has a purpose - to let her difficult testimony touch your life.

In 2013, Angela told herself that she was going to speak on stage with Les Brown one day and work with him. Now, Angela has one-on-one sessions with Les regularly. How amazing is that?!

Even if you are in the trenches fighting daily to live another day or wishing life was easier or trying to figure out why you are in such a difficult situation - trust the Lord that he has you, is here for you, and will get you through it.

Links:

Website:  www.angieb.com.au

Facebook PAGE:  https://www.facebook.com/AngieB76

Instagram:  httpps://www.instagram.com/the.transformation.queen

Email:  [email protected]

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Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Dalia Ganzel, who goes by Change…her real name. She is a free-spirit, best-selling author who is part of ‘Women of the Power Voice’, and an amazing person overall.

She talks about joining Les Brown’s class and how she came in and hid. During Power Voice class with Mr. Les Brown Dalia would be nervous to share her story, and how that changed with a mindset shift. She realized she has a story to tell and a motivating one! Dalia is now empowered to help people bring out their power voice as we all have something valuable to help someone else.

Dalia says it is important to not hold onto things holding us down, when Life or God wants us to empower and release the illusion of what the world has told you, or the false beliefs about yourself that you have believed for so long.

She gives such wisdom on giving thanks to God even though he does not deliver exactly how you would have expected. She says to listen to that still small voice that is speaking to you, and act on it - “Come and join the nut club and if you don’t like it go back to your sofa!” as Dalia put it, and do not give up on yourself! Ms Ganzel talks about when a person goes numb, when a person is not asking themselves questions anymore, they are losing life as they have stepped out of the game.

Dalia talks about how when people are on their deathbed, it is not what they did that they regret, it’s what they did not do. Dalia closes with telling us to act immediately when we hear that voice, don’t talk yourself out of it - just do it.

Small Gift from Dalia: Dalia wrote up an awesome work book that she is giving out for free! Reach out to her today to get your copy!

LINKS:

Facebook: Dalia Ganzel

As Always – Thank you so much for listening to this week’s International Radio Show and Podcast. We would love the support of our listeners by sharing our page on their social media platforms. Blessings to you and yours!

-Purpose by Design

Purpose by Design is honored to introduce Donato Perricci, my long-time friend with many titles - he is a pastor, husband, child of the Lord, father, IT specialist and so much more. Donato has much wisdom in today’s podcast so please listen up and be ready to be rocked!

He talks about when life gets you down, you get to choose the cards to a degree that you play. He had many things challenge him through life and Donato could have let those things make him bitter and jaded and mold him into a very different person. Instead, he let God renew him and let it be part of his testimony. He shares that mindset is everything when it comes to dealing with life.

Donato shares with us some troubles he had in his childhood when his parents got divorced when he was young. He talks about how he has had the Call of God in his life for much of it - once he knew the Lord, Donato was changed forever. He talks about how it is a lifelong commitment. Knowing Christ can and will shift you into a very different person than who you could be.

He talks about what led him to be lead pastor at a local church here in Minnesota, where he was a youth pastor (for all of my kids), and helping out at church in various leadership roles. Donato opens up about how he met his lovely wife and how they’ve been successfully married for 10 years now. They met a long time ago at camp and he knew she was the one…however it wasn’t for quite some span of time before they reconnected after then came into each-other’s lives.

God brought a lot of what was lost in Donato’s life… brought 3 wonderful kids to him through marriage.  He got fantastic in-laws to the point he calls his mother-in-law: “mom”. Finally he is loving being a grandparent.

Donato talks about DNP Designs, he and his wife’s entrepreneurship endeavor. They own a website design company that helps with blogs, social media, advertisement, IT help - the whole nine yards.

Finally, Donato talks about how his church transitioned online and how now anyone can watch and learn of the Lord. He talks about the importance of being fed, and to continually seek after God.

*If you need ANY HELP with website design or IT help - reach out to Donato and Nichol on their DNP Designs Facebook Platform (in the Links below) and let them help you out. They are fantastic (they run all my website and email stuff for my business) and I can’t recommend them enough.

LINKS:

Facebook: Donato Perricci | Facebook

DNP Designs: DNP Designs | Facebook

www.dnpdesigns.com

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Thank you so much for listening to this week’s International Radio Show and Podcast. We would love the support of our listeners by sharing our page on their social media platforms. Blessings to you and yours!

-Purpose by Design

Purpose by Design welcomes my friend and best-selling author Kathy White who holds many titles. She is a funologist, a mindset mentor, an author, and owns a virtual reality company. She lives in Utah and loves to go snowshoeing and hiking the Utah mountains.

She talks about living at a Happiness-level Frequency which naturally brings more abundance into your life. It is important to find our lost voice and bring it to the surface.

She explains when you are having trouble going through stuff how wrong it is to feel like you cannot go to counseling due to outside pressure or opinions. Her former husband had some personal issues that led to him attempting to take his life. She explains how draining it was when she would have to drag him up to a good frequency where he was ok to be her husband and her kids’ dad. This was the beginning of falling out of love with him. A couple years later - she filed for divorce as enough was enough. She met her now husband Jeff a bit later and is so incredibly happy. She talks about how God wants us to be happy and how life is not supposed to just be okay. He wants to prosper us.

She talked about how she stayed in a marriage for so long due to believing that God was going to be so angry at her for separating from an emotionally abusive relationship as well as her mother who stayed in a suffering marriage for so long.

She found out that Mike got the counseling he needed after she left him, as she found she was enabling his toxic dependency on her. Essentially and very probably - their divorce may have saved Mike’s life.

Kathy talks about her part in Women of the Power Voice which catapulted her into a new life that she did not know was possible. She is so excited to share her story with you and the world.

Links:

Website: coachkathywhite.com

https://linktr.ee/coachkathywhite

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Throwback Thursday on Wednesday!📅

🎉HAPPY BIRTHDAY🎊🎊🎊 to my AMAZING assistant, Nichol Perricci and her Wonderful Momma, Pastor Sandy Brookens.  This Mother/Daughter Duo 💞💕share the same birthday and a whole lot more!  Their story will have you cheering, crying then cheering again. 🙏

Almost two years ago I had the honor of interviewing these ladies for a Purpose by Design Series on Adoption Awareness.💫 We pulled this episode out of the vault🔏 and it is one of my absolute favorites. 🤗 Some life details need to be updated like… They have all moved in the past 2 years.  Sandy to her own place.  Donato is now the Senior Pastor with Nichol by his side, still at Victory Celebration. Nichol’s journey to find her biological family at least on her dad’s side and has a trip planned in April to meet several of them. Nichol has worked the last few years with myself to help grow her platform and audience. We are both so excited for what is ahead for Purpose by Design. Nichol and her husband have also started a Design business, DNP Designs in which Nichol has expanded her wealth of knowledge and expertise. They have also added another Grand to the mix :)

But the theme of “Family” is still the same.

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📣HAPPY BIRTHDAY🕯🍰🥳🎁 Lady Nichol and Pastor Sandy you both deserve to be honored on your special day! ❤️ 😘

Thank you for allowing me to interview you both and share your story with the world.🌎 I love you tons!!❤❤- Dr. Pamela

Links for Nichol

Website: www.dnpdesigns.com

FB: https://www.facebook.com/nicholperricci/

Email: [email protected]

Keep up with Nichol’s story - NEW podcast starting March 15, 2022 - https://anchor.fm/nichol19

Link for Sandy

Email: [email protected]

Purpose by Design is honored to introduce to you Deidre Calcoate, a dear friend of mine who lives quite a fulfilling life: serving others. Deidra has been dealt a lot in life that could have caused her to be bitter but she has allowed those lemons to be made into lemonade.She is a transformational life coach, International Best Selling Author, trainer, and suicide interventionalist. Plus, she has an infectious laugh.

Deidre takes us on a journey surroinding her adoption story and how that molded her into who she is today.  Amazing!

Today is a serious topic: suicide prevention. It’s truly a helpful, knowledgeable interview that everyone needs to hear so they can be aware of what to do if they ever are in this predicament. She shares how someone close to her tried taking their life many times and that is what got her into being an interventionist.

Deidre goes into detail on how to navigate a situation when someone is “up on a ledge” and how to talk them down, as well as how to navigate someone perhaps thinking about it. She gives huge gold nuggets on this very critical topic and we need to spread the word. She spreads awareness around if someone is starting to give away things that are important to them, maybe making arrangements for their pets - please ask them questions, and watch them because that is a tell-tale sign. She gives insight about saying someone committed suicide as comitted implies criminal activity. Think about that for a minute. This is just touching the surface - you’ll need to listen to hear all of the incremental details.

This is a powerful episode. Please make sure you carve out  time it .

LINKS:

Deidre A. Calcoate | Facebook

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-Purpose by Design

Purpose by Design welcomes Stephon Leary - a child of the Lord, a mentor, speaker, author and so much more. He is so motivating and has a powerful testimony to share.

Stephon had a tremendous situation happen at the age of 17 - he was adopted by a white family (he compares to the Blind Side) - which did change his life indefinitely.

For many years until 2020, he always lived like he was a black man adopted by a white family. When the Corona virus hit - it all changed. He shares a bit about his rough childhood that had domestic abuse on a normal basis, until his mother grabbed him and his siblings ran away to Houston, Texas to start a new life.

Stephon revisits how he and his siblings would come home during the school day and go back to bed until their mother was threatened with jail time if they don’t attend. As life went on, all of his siblings dropped out of school using substances daily. Stephon chose to stay in school, and go a different route. He started playing sports and got noticed fast. He had an attitude however.

He had a humbling and quite painful moment when there was an MVP award up for grabs and he got turned down saying his character didn’t fit the award. See, Stephon thought it was about fighting your way to the top no matter what it took.

God lined things up where Stephon had the opportunity to go to a Christian school, where his adopted mother who worked at the school told Stephon that God put him in her heart and said he has a place to stay if he goes to that school. He was welcomed with open arms and he was a part of that family, and was going to a solid school. The love he got from that family showed him God’s love and broke the curse.

Stephon’s message is to bring out and tap into the greatness inside of you because you do have it, and can do so much in your life. He encourages that we are built to last through tough times, go through seasons in our lives. God is there through it all.

You are strong enough to go through it. He explains the most in-depth Lion King analysis you will ever hear of Rafiki talking to Simba, telling him to look deeper at his reflection, and how his father lives in him even though physically gone. Does this sound like our God a bit? Something you surely will want to hear!

Links:

FACEBOOK: Stephon Leary | Facebook

INSTAGRAM: Stephon “The Coach” Leary (@stephonleary) • Instagram photos and videos

As Always –

Thank you so much for listening to this week’s International Radio Show and Podcast. We would love the support of our listeners by sharing our page on their social media platforms. Blessings to you and yours!

-Purpose by Design