Get F***ing Real

Rodney Flowers is a best-selling author, speaker, thought leader, and creator of the Game Changer Mentality resilience training program.

Could you keep going if the one thing you enjoy doing most in life was taken away forever?

When Rodney was 15 years old, he suffered a traumatic football injury that left him a quadriplegic, supposedly for life. Listen in as he shares what it was like hearing that as a kid, and the remarkable 18-year journey he took to walk again. 

Plus, hear how Rodney's experience now empowers his mission to serve as an example of what's possible, and to teach others ways to develop a mindset of resilience so they can conquer any obstacle between them and their goals.

 Resources

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Katrina Sawa is creator of the Jumpstart Your Biz Marketing, Speaker & Author Systems, and a 9x international best-selling author who’s been featured on “Oprah and Friends,” ABC, and The CW Network. 

What’s love got to do with being successful in business?

Katrina shares the story of her 8-year “starter marriage” that she says was 2 years too long, and makes the connection between her growth as an entrepreneur and the problems with her first husband that contributed to their breakup.

Find out the ego-confronting revelations Katrina had after her re-entry into the dating world, and hear about the mentor who opened her eyes to the role she played in her divorce, and prepared her for a healthy relationship with the man she’s married to today. 

Hear about the terrifying diagnosis her then fiancee got that rocked their world—but not her business thanks to taking some critical steps you’ll learn about that let her put things on autopilot so she could focus on getting him well. 

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Zarinah El-Amin is an award-winning anthropologist, author and TEDx speaker whose company, Book Power Publishing, revolves around helping clients create cultural change through books and global experiences. 

What is the dumbest decision you've ever made in your life?

Zarinah opens up about the “dumbest decision” she ever made, and the transformational lesson she learned when she repressed her true nature to make her marriage work. Being raised a Muslim, Zarinah was surrounded by family friends from many cultures, but as a student in Detroit and later at Howard University, she wasn’t exposed to a lot of different people.

Find out what “clicked” that made her know she was a “person of the world.” And how that led to eye-opening experiences like living in Egypt and dating someone in a different caste, and revitalizing orphan programs in Sierra Leone.

You’ll also hear the lessons she learned in her 40th year—a spiritual year of revelations for many Muslims—which came in a series of GFR moments including losing her mom, divorcing her husband of 14 years, and moving in with her father after his stage 4 cancer diagnosis. Plus, you’ll hear how she’s using it all to serve her purpose today.

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Lisa confesses about a radical decision she made around her body and food this year that has been brewing for over 30 of her 50 years on the planet. She’s also releasing this episode on video, which is a significant decision for her, as you’ll learn on the show.

Hear what wounds Lisa uncovered around her self-image that she thought she’d healed, plus find out 12 surprising things she’s learned in the 9 months since this journey began. 

Beyond personal revelations, you’ll find out what Lisa—who is very much in process with this new GFR path—discovered about the perception of bigger bodies in society, the way fat people are treated (or mistreated) by the medical community, and the surprising origin story of fat shaming in our culture. Lisa also confesses some internal biases she recognized that she has against fat bodies, and how she’s beginning to rewire them.

Whether you listen to the podcast or watch the video on Lisa’s YouTube channel, the intention is for you to hear something that activates something meant to be activated in you, in the divine right time and way.

 Resources

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UNDIET BOOKS

• The Fuck It Diet - Caroline Dooner
• Intuitive Eating - Evelyn Tribole & Elyse Resch
• Body Respect - Linda Bacon
• Health At Every Size - Linda Bacon
• Food Isn’t Medicine - Dr. Joshua Wolrich

BODY IMAGE / SOCIAL JUSTICE BOOKS

Vivian Glyck is a thought leader in global issues facing adolescent girls and women, and founder of Just Like My Child Foundation. 

Do you believe everything happens for a reason?

Vivian’s passion for empowering young girls to find their voice and protect their bodies was born out of her own traumatic sexual and emotional abuse as a child. Listen for her story of growing up as the immigrant child of Holocaust survivors in NYC’s Spanish Harlem, and hear intimate details about the origin story of her foundation that she doesn’t usually share when talking about her work. 

You’ll also hear two huge GFR Moments from Vivian’s past. One when she finally took a stand against her abuser, and another later in life when after a series of miscarriages, she had a mystical experience in Greece with Artemis/Diana (a.k.a. Wonder Woman), the goddess of chastity and childbirth, that turned into a global mission that has her foundation on track to help one million adolescent girls around the world. 

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Dr. Veronica Anderson is a Burnout Recovery Specialist and bestselling author of “Get the Respect You Deserve: 7 Secrets to Getting Seen and Heard in Your Job and Relationships.”

Do you feel like you should be doing something totally different?

After graduating with honors from Princeton and building a 7-figure surgery practice, Dr. Veronica had it all: a solid marriage, great kids, all the trappings of a luxurious lifestyle… and a knowing she was meant for something else completely. 

Hear Dr. Veronica’s story of the communities that shaped her from being a black woman in an Ivy League medical school, through a religion-focused marriage and lifestyle, to realizing her intuitions held more power than she realized. Find out about the #GFRMoment when she was enabled to leave her old life behind, and the fascinating way she’s blended science and woo-woo in her clairvoyant healing practice today.

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Dr. Venus Opal Reese is the bestselling author of, "Black Woman Millionaire," CEO of VenusOpal Enterprises Inc, and star of “Hot Mess Millionaire,” which has over 5 million views on Amazon Prime.

Do you have “special needs?”

Dr. Venus went from living on the streets at 16 to earning a Masters Degree and PhD at Stanford to owning a multi 7-figure business where she made $5 million in her first 6 years. Which is quite the #GFR journey, however today’s interview is focused on what Dr. Venus is doing now that she’s dismantled the empire she built, along with ending her marriage and liquidating all her assets.

Listen as Dr. Venus shares the series of GFRMoments that convinced her to burn everything down at once in one of the rawest and realest* episodes we’ve ever done. We also get into what she’s learned about owning her PTSD and advocating for her special needs that empowered her to rise from the ashes with a tech company specifically built to empower and advocate for other black women.

*Note! When we say “one of the rawest and realest,” we mean it. You might wanna listen to this one when the kids aren’t around.

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Dr. Ganz Ferrance is a speaker, author and coach with 30+ years experience as a practicing psychologist.

Do you know how to prevent yourself from getting burnt out? 

Dr. Ganz shares the #GFRMoment when he woke up in a strange hotel with no idea where he was, and tells us how he learned to beat the burnout that led to this terrifying, yet enlightening, experience. He also opens up about the indignities he suffered as a black Caribbean immigrant in an all white Canadian school, and explains how our Adverse Childhood Events (ACE’s) continue to affect us well into adulthood. 

Hear what it was like being the only biological child in a family with 6 adopted kids, and learn how the strategies Dr. Ganz developed to negotiate that dynamic—as well as other family traumas—both led to his breakdown in that hotel room, and now serve to support his mission.

Plus, get a peek into Dr. Ganz’s "Decision Matrix," and "7 Me Factors," which help you make decisions based on the impact they’ll have in all parts of your life.  

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Eva Medilek is a Certified High-Performance Coach, International Speaker and author of, “The Intimacy of Race.”

Do you believe success requires sacrifice?

Eva tells us a story about the #GFRMoment she discovered her husband was cheating, and the remarkable way she embraced this catastrophic event as an opportunity to strengthen her marriage.  

She shares about the key role a late-in-life change of career played in the near demise of her relationship. Plus, we take a look at the hard truths Eva—a woman of color married to a white man—uncovered about the power dynamics in her marriage and society, as she gained success in her new real estate business at age 50. 

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Wendy Petties is a sex educator and founder of Sexy Money Lifestyle. Her work has been featured in Essence magazine, Sisters of AARP, NBC XL, and more.

Do you make pleasure a priority in your life? 

Wendy shares her story from seeking an MBA so she could make big money on Wall Street, to the moment she risked it all to call out the inequalities she faced as a young black woman in the workplace. We also dig into the unique challenges black women tackle in society that you may not have thought about.

Hear the happenstance way Wendy became a sex educator for women of color during the early years of AIDS, and the GFR Moment with her gynecologist (after a decade of surgeries) that gave her freedom over her body, and ultimately empowered her mission as a coach and money sexpert today. 

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