Inspiration Rising

Megan O'Grady is a 16 year old high school student living with her family in the state Florida where her father is a police sergeant for the Cape Coral Police Department. In January 2017, she started a non-profit called Blue Line Bears to help children and families of fallen officers cope with their loss. She utilizes the uniform shirt of the fallen officer to make a one-of-a-kind teddy bear, and she’s given away at the time of this interview 454 bears in 36 states including one in Canada. Megan has been honored as ABC World News Tonight’s person of the week, and she’s appeared on the Today Show and countless other news programs to talk about her work.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How Megan came up with the idea for Blue Line Bears.
• What she experienced while making and delivering the very first bear.
• How her parents supported the idea and how her family now works as a team.
• What you can do to support your own kids when they come to you with what may seem like a crazy idea.

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Connect with Blue Line Bears:

• www.BlueLineBears.org
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram

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When Philadelphia Eagles tight end Fred Hill’s 3-year-old daughter, Kim, was being treated for leukemia in 1974, his life changed. He and his wife, Fran, camped out on hospital benches and sat in cramped waiting rooms during Kim’s three years of treatment. The Hills watched other parents and families of seriously ill children do the same thing. Many of the families had to travel long distances for their children to receive medical treatment and couldn’t afford hotel rooms.

The Hills knew there had to be a solution. Fred rallied the support of his teammates to raise funds. Through Jim Murray, the Eagles’ general manager, the team offered its support to Dr. Audrey Evans, head of the pediatric oncology unit at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. Evans dreamed of a comfortable temporary residence for families of children being treated at her hospital.

Jim enlisted Don Tuckerman from the local McDonald’s advertising agency, who with the support of McDonald’s Regional Manager Ed Rensi, launched the St. Patrick’s Day Green Milkshake (dubbed the Shamrock Shake) promotion. Funds raised helped buy an old house located near the hospital, which was opened in 1974 as the first Ronald McDonald House. There are now have more than 365 Ronald McDonald Houses that serve more than 7200 families a night around the world.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How the Philadelphia Eagles rallied to support the Fred and Fran Hill when their daughter, Kim, was diagnosed with leukemia.
• How the first Ronald McDonald House was started.
• How families can stay at a Ronald McDonald House at a low cost during their child's treatment.
• How each Ronald McDonald House is funded.

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Connect with Ronald McDonald House - Orange, California:

• Ronald McDonald House - Orange, CA
• Instagram
• Facebook
• Twitter
• YouTube

Connect with Ronald McDonald House Charities - Global:

• Ronald McDonald House Charities
• Instagram 
• Facebook 
• Twitter 
• YouTube 

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Lindsay Eidahl is the founder of MyCreativeDays.com, and she is obsessed with old wood, rusty treasures, and creating beauty out of worn-down items. She's a coupon clipper, budget tracking, frugal Mom always looking for ways to decorate her family's home without breaking the bank!

Lindsay and her husband, Matt, are just getting started on their fifth house flipping project, but I wanted to talk with her about home organization since that’s a big challenge for so many of us. Be sure to listen to the end of our conversation to learn about a 31 Day Organizational Challenge that is sure to help you out.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• The biggest challenges most people face when it comes to getting organized and staying organized.
• How to get started if your house is a disaster.
• The specific steps you need to take to get organized.
• How to stay organized on an ongoing basis.

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Connect with Lindsay Eidahl:

• www.MyCreativeDays.com
• Free 5 Day Organizational Challenge
• 31 Day Organization Challenge
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Pinterest
• YouTube

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Welcome to the Inspiration Rising podcast! My name is David Trotter, and I'm here to inspire you to rise up in your life, love, and leadership.

I used to love stress! I would create scenarios where I would feel stressed to experience that hit of adrenaline that would make me feel alive and motivate me to get all sorts of stuff done. I was stressed out from 1998 to 2008. I was a workaholic, and I thrived on stress. The major downside was...stress didn’t help my relationships or my soul. It made me short, impatient, and critical (more than usual I should say), and it caused a constant buzz in my mind and heart.

11 years ago after a major meltdown, peace became a major value for me, so I actively seek to cultivate, and that’s what I want to share with you today.

Here are four questions to ask yourself if you want to handle stress like a boss babe...

1. What’s causing me stress?
2. What am I afraid of?
3. What can I do about it?
4. What do I need to release?

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Tim Storey is an acclaimed author, speaker, and life coach helping people create the future they desire. He has inspired people from all walks of life, from entertainment legends to professional athletes...from executives to underserved children throughout the world. Tim has traveled to seventy-five countries and spoken to millions of people. He has been a featured guest on Oprah’s SuperSoul Sunday, Steve Harvey TV, Grant Cardone’s 10X Growth Con, and many more events. Tim has authored multiple books including Comeback & Beyond.

I met Tim Storey in 1992 at Vanguard University in southern California. He had just delivered an inspiring talk to the student body, and I was invited to a private meet and greet to connect and ask a few questions. Let’s just say he doesn’t exactly remember meeting me, but I will never forget his powerful, positive message.

No matter what stage of life you are...you’re going to be inspired today!

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Three types of setbacks that come into our lives.
• Unhelpful ways we deal with setbacks.
• The first thing you need to do when a setback happens.
• Specific steps you can take to turn a setback into a comeback.
• What happens if we get stuck in a setback.
• One of the biggest setbacks in Tim's life and how he dealt with it.

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Connect with Tim Storey:

• www.timstorey.com
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Coaching & E-Class
• Utmost (app)
• Comeback & Beyond (book)

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Stacey Robbins is a Renaissance woman who lives life by inspiration as a Coach, Speaker, Italian Retreat Leader. She is the Author of An Unconventional Life: Where Messes and Magic Collide, You’re Not Crazy and You’re Not Alone, and Bloom Beautiful.

Her career began as a professional musician when she was 15, working as a songwriter, pianist, and vocalist in solo performance as well as with many other talented artists, but when she was 27 hit a health bump that dramatically shifted her life. After a parade of misdiagnoses, gaining 100 pounds in a year and becoming so ill that she could barely get out of bed, the doctors told her to get her affairs in order.

Stacey began pursuing her health from a deeply spiritual angle that led her to shine a flashlight down all the corridors of her life: Thoughts, Beliefs, Patterns, Relationships, Spiritual Practices, Self-Care, Food, and Exercise. Through that experience and years of research of a diagnosis with Hashimoto’s (an autoimmune condition that affects the thyroid and therefore every cell in your body) she has been able to speak all over the US and reach people all over the world with her healing insights that she discovered through her own sacred journey.

Now, in addition to her coaching and book writing, Stacey creates gorgeous, transformational, self-care experiences through her international retreats and workshops, empowering women to risk adventure as a way to live from what she calls their “Brave Soul Place.” Stacey resides in Southern California with her author, tech-geek, musician husband and their two amazing, curly-haired teenage sons.

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• Why risk-taking is important to cultivate in our lives.
• What happens to our minds and hearts when we take risks.
• How Stacey and her husband, Rock, cultivate risk-taking in her boys.
• How her family sold/packed up their entire lives and headed to Italy. 
• How to start taking small risks (even if that's not normally your thing).

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Connect with Stacey Robbins:

• www.staceyrobbins.com
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Coaching
• Women's Retreats to Italy
• The Hashimoto's Mind Game

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Deirdre Fitzpatrick has been a morning news anchor for over 20 years at KCRA 3 NBC in Sacramento, California. She is an Emmy award winning journalist in reporting, anchoring, and writing, and she has covered the last 10 Olympic Games. Deirdre is married and a mother of two, which she says is far more tiring than any endurance race. At the time of recording, she's run 21 marathons, seven 50k ultra runs, and two Ironmans. How inspirational is that?

In This Episode, You Will Learn:

• How she’s developed a high level of resilience.
• What Olympic athletes inspire her with their level of resilience.
• How Deirdre handles being in the public eye at least five days a week.
• How she cares for herself.
• Her current read - Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)

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Connect with Deirdre Fitzpatrick:

• Dying to Ask Podcast - iTunes
• Dying to Ask Podcast - Stitcher
• Instagram - podcast
• Instagram - Deirdre
• Facebook - Deirdre
• Twitter - Deirdre
• KCRA 3

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