Hungry 4 Hope

We where joined by Richard Jensen, who after 15 years of addiction, hopelessness and seven years in jail Richard got clean and sober and at 36 years old joined the Clackamas Community College wrestling team and went on a quest to become a wrestling national champion which he accomplished in 2016. His story was showcased on ESPN and won an Emmy Award in 2009. Today he talks in depth about the dangers of addiction and uses his personal story to encourage people to make positive choices by creating a vision, making attainable goals and staying on course. His message is that everyone can Be a Champion in Life

We where joined by Candace Gantt, founder of Mind Your Brain Foundation, a non profit that has partnered with Penn Medicine and is dedicated to helping traumatic brain injury survivors. Candace who was awarded the Philadelphia Magazine health heroes award in 2017 told us of her near fatal traumatic brain injury that left her a shell of her former self, and her crusade to not just help her self but help other survivors. It was a story a inspiration, Hope and the power of never giving up

After one of the crazier weeks of host Donnie’s life helping out the victims of the Tornado that devastated his hometown the community could use some hope and our guests from Operation tattooing Freedom, a nonprofit that’s help vets with mental health and other issues through therapeutic tattoo sessions, did just that, we had their outreach director Matt Davies, who told us that without the vets and this organization he would of been dead , also President Clipper Chris Jones fly into the studio from South Carolina and one of their veteran tattoo artist Soldier Mike flew in from Indiana , these guys are literally saving the most vulnerable veterans lives, what a honor having them on.

We had Army veteran Mark Eberle a Glassboro, NJ native who discussed how he was able to take his personal struggles as a
Veteran suffering from PTSD to create his own nonprofit, Paws Healing Heroes, which has been featured nationwide including on the Rachel Ray show, their mission is to provide service dogs to Veterans in need. He discussed the success his program has had, including veterans thanking him for saving their lives, helping Mark succeed in his ultimate goal which is to combat the number of veterans who commit suicide everyday which is a average of 22.

Tonight, Hungry 4 Hope nation was joined by COO & President of Blue Link Wireless and 20 year cancer survivor Dave Fine. Dave spoke to us about his battle with stage 3 cancer, overcoming adversity and never giving up! He also spoke in detail about his mantra "One Team One Goal, Changing the World" as well as the impact Sylvester Stallone had on his recovery!! Make sure to tune in to here a great inspirational story, while getting your weekly dosage of Hope!!

On this episode we will be opening the phone lines and taking calls, the topic is brought to us by Raymond Merschen, “Tough Times don’t Last Tough People do” and we will be discussing how some of this years guests have been able to make it through tough times in their lives and use them In a positive way to help others

Hungry 4 Hope Nation had the opportunity to talk to Gloucester Catholic Alumni & ROH Professional Wrestler, Gabe Alessi! Gabe discussed living his childhood dream when he became a pro wrestler. We also discussed his dedication to raising awareness for Overdose Prevention, in memory of his Older brother Christian. Tune in right now for your weekly dosage of Hope!!

We are excited to have live in the studio as our guest this week host of Hands Off on RVNTV, Rhett Hackett

Hungry 4 Hope Nation had the pleasure of sitting down with former World Title Challenger, current trainer, and Humanitarian, "Iceman" John Scully. All while he was in a sky box at Fenway park!! We had the opportunity to discuss his start in boxing, his future book, and his humanitarian work he does for retired boxers in need! Another can't miss episode. Sit down, relax, and take your weekly "dosage of Hope"!

We where joined in studio by Elizabeth Starr, who shared her story of how she went from a obese young lady to chasing her dream of competing in bodybuilding physique competitions. She took us through the years long dedication and hard work it took to lose 100lbs while proving all the naysayers wrong, using determination and hard work. We also had Jillian Cannan of a Buffalo New York on the show, she found herself in national news headlines this week after receiving 100’s of packages that she never ordered from Amazon. Unable to find the sender or intended destination she teamed up with Amazon to make care packages using some of the supplies in the boxes she received, and donated them to the local children’s hospital through her company loadedlumber.com