My guest today is Marnie Swedberg from St. Petersburg. Although not a bona fide thrill seeker, some of her God appointed travel assignments might make one think otherwise.

Marnie Swedberg equips Christian goal-getters to embrace and achieve their God-sized directives. She has mentored over 15,000 leaders from 35 countries, providing coaching, connections and collaboration. She is also a courage and clarity coach, author, speaker, collaborator & radio host.

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As an international keynote speaker, Marnie shares perspective transforming strategies and riveting life stories. She successfully owned and managed businesses in the restaurant and retail industries for over a decade and is now the author of 13 books, host of a #1 ranked and featured Blog Talk Radio Show and the founder/director of www.WomenSpeakers.com, the largest directory of its kind in the world.

Her history includes fires, floods, a tornado,car wrecks, business set-backs, a burglary, lightning strike, ambulance rides and more.

She models come-back behavior, possibility thinking, and profound faithand is now the webhostess of www.WomenSpeakers.com,the largest online directory of Christian Women Speakers in the world.The website connects event planners with speaker from every experience level, fee range, and denomination and currently features over 1000 speakers.

 As a public speaker herself, Marnie recently solo-circumnavigated the globe by herself, speaking 26 times at six conferences in four countries. Crossing the Uganda border just before midnight she was confronted by two different militant groups with machine guns in the middle of the night.

She has presented for large corporations including Honeywell, Prudential, and Pillsbury; for non-profit groups including Chambers of Commerce, Professional Women’s groups, colleges and libraries. and for Christian women’s retreats, conferences, and other programs.

 Courage & Clarity for Every Fresh Start

1. How do you define a fresh start?
2. What do you do before you get to your fresh start -- during the discouraging days?
3. Talk about the role of habits, systems and templates in maximizing fresh starts.
4. Tell us about your US and global fresh start experiences.

Free Offer: Are you discouraged? You are not alone. There is hope for you.

Get Marnie's Anti-Discouragement Questions Marnie.com/FreeResource

6 anti-discouragement questions

The Six Anti-Discouragement Questions: Excerpt from Success Principles Intensive Coach Certification Program

1. Is my focus on my situation or on God?

2. Is my concern about how I’ll look to others or how this might affect God’s reputation, or on God Himself?

3. Is the reward I’m seeking immediate or eternal?

4. Are my pronouns personal or all about God?

5. Am I looking at what is left to be done or what traumas potentially lie ahead of me, or am I focusing on God?

6. Is my concern based on circumstantial evidence or godly truth?

WITH OUR EYES ON JESUS, WE LIVE BOLDLY

FOR AN AUDIENCE OF ONE, NO MATTER

THE CIRCUMSTANCES.