Moving Upstream Without a Paddle

The truth shall set you free! Robin is a confidence coach. She teaches people how to get out of their heads so they can actually live their life the way it was meant to be lived. After being a broadcasting journalist for NBC and ABC, Robin became disenchanted by the negative spin put on everything reported in that arena. She understood the negative is what held people’s attention. Her primal need to help folks see the weather forecast as an 80% chance of sunshine as opposed to a 20% chance of rain led her into doing what she does today. The truth she speaks in this podcast will resonate with everyone and inspire you to buy her book: Get Off My Bus!: How to Get Clarity, Get in the Diver’s Seat, and Get Moving in Your Life. She advises that you ask yourself five thought-provoking questions and be sure to answer them.

Neil’s experience is a must-hear story. He hit rock bottom at which time he was given a prognosis of two weeks to live. It took some time, but he learned the freedom of tuning out “the program” and tapping into his internal being. What is the program? It’s all those external things, mostly lies, people use to try to fix themselves. Learn how to stop those self-destructive habits of:

His book on Amazon is The Bullshit Machine/Transcending the Delusion of Who We Think We Are

He can be found at: neilfirszt.com  Exposing yourself to him maybe the start of the life-change you’ve been longing for.

Ever had a teacher that was totally boring and another that was, energetic and inspiring? Well, Dale Roberts is the second experience. He is a best-selling fitness author on Amazon but he is doing something different now. He teaches people how to write and self-publish books that sell. With a position as an activities director for a senior complex with growth potential, he decided to write a book. It brought in a little over $24 upon which he decided to quit his job and write full time. A gutsy move, but he didn’t feel panic until he had gone through all his savings. He then consulted a coach. In about six months he was up and running. He kept thinking it was a fluke but it just kept going. His youtube channel got started when he tried to save himself by answering the same question one time in a video rather than a gazillion times individually. It grew into the Youtube channel: “Self Publishing with Dale”. This gentleman has the heart and passion of a servant. He love’s connecting people with people and turning competitors into collaborators. If you ever get a chance to talk to him you will find that his passion just oozes out of him.

Talk about a life full of trouble with a somewhat belated turnaround Kelley’s story is just that. From her early childhood, she experienced very negative things and carried that mindset into her adult life. She believed in order to be acceptable she had to be perfect. Along the way, she developed an eating disorder, got married, and had triplets which she found very challenging to handle only she wouldn’t admit that to anyone. She had to keep up appearances of being perfect. While in her forties she was diagnosed with breast cancer. That took a year-long chunk out of her life while she endured all the usual therapies for breast cancer. At that point, after twenty-five years of being a dental hygienist, she decided she wanted to help women and earned a master’s degree in counseling. Even as a therapist, she experienced some very negative things like a narcissistic husband who took her passport and left her stranded in a foreign country. She determined she needed to decide as to whether she would continue to be victimized by her circumstances or step up and create the existence she really wanted for herself. She worked with a coach who told her that the negative self-belief she carried inside her was inviting all the negative stuff into her life. Anyone who has done any self-assessment and tried to turn the direction of their life around will for sure identify with her story. Those who have not done so will be inspired to take a look at themselves and set off on a new journey of their own. For help and guidance, Kelley can be found very easily by performing a Google search for Kelly Sgroi LMHC.

Want to set your mind at ease about your finances? Adam Koren is a compassionate financial coach who takes a creative approach to help people deal with money issues. He finds that people don’t like to talk about money. In many cases, they don’t like to deal with it at all until they are hit with some sort of crisis for which they don’t have funds to deal with but feel they should. Most financial and/or investment counselors deal with the should or shouldn’t rules of money handling. His approach is to deal with the emotional attachments to what things money can do for a person. He likes to determine what:

He states the growth benefit his clients experience from working with him is they begin by being extremely anxious and ashamed and end up feeling relaxed, confident, and settled in their mind and heart. He wants people to know they don’t have to face the money issue alone. He does recommend a personal management tool that most of his clients find very helpful which is the free app “Mint” from Intuit. For a consultation, he can be found at adamkoren.com and offers a discount for mentioning the podcast so be sure and listen to this one!

If you are in the can’t-find-the-job-I-really-want slump you will want to listen to this woman.

Terry McDougall began a podcast to share her learning experiences during her career so other people could benefit from her stumbles and skinned knees. That turned into a book: Winning the Game of Work: Career Happiness and Success on Your Own Terms. She started out in marketing but loved the mentoring and coaching aspect of her responsibilities. Today she is a career coach and radiates with the wisdom of the current work environment. Learn:

If you feel you need a career coach you can’t go wrong with Terry. Listen and see for yourself.

What a multi-faceted dynamo of humanity. Allison has had so many experiences from which she has learned, she had a difficult time sharing her story because there is so much to it. She stated that she discovered her name Allison, could also be read as All Is On which is how she views herself. She is a pastor, counselor and coach. She grew up with her mother but since her mother did not speak negative things about her father, she remained close to him. She was diagnosed with BI-Polar disease and was on medication for twenty years. She has been medication free for some time now. It started out with her having migraines (177 in a year’s time) and then she started falling so much so that she had to retire from her job. She credits God with leading her through the process of getting medication free and being healed. She says the Lord spoke to her and said the medications she was taking were killing her. She checked herself in to a two week program to wean herself from the meds. Then she did a green smoothie cleanse and ended up becoming a vegan. She also quit drinking anything with caffeine in it. She states that the Lord told her she needed to work out more than the average person. So, she runs every day and swims one a week. This led to her having a daily Facebook prayer run. Many people have gotten a lot out of her ‘Prayer Run’. 

You can meet her at www.allisonjoan.com. 

She has also written a book: Cracks in the Potters Clay, How I Overcame Bi-Polar with Faith

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Michelle Graff

Michelle Graff comes from a child welfare background. After a point in her career, she determined she could have more impact by changing her focus to working with the help professionals. This is a packet of powerful information from the author of The Compassion Fatigued Organization: Restoring Compassion to Helping Professionals. The multiple topics Michelle addresses include:

The importance of relationships

Michelle focuses on teaching people how to become more self-aware, build resiliency, distinguish self vs. other’s trauma through self-awareness, how to recognize when compassion is being shut off in the brain freeze response for protection, and know that compassion is necessary and replenishable. Michelle believes interpersonal relationships are very important and we must learn how to set appropriate boundaries as well as be respectful of other’s boundaries and accept the fact that we as individuals have no control of another person’s determined boundaries. She talks about the importance of employing and broadening skills needed to reset, maintain, and regulate yourself into responding rather than reacting to those things that trigger the flight, fight or freeze mode of trauma. One can’t help but learn a lot from Michelle Graff.

Riana and I talk about the top 10 list of trauma and how to determine if trauma is playing a part in your relationships. This is an eye-opening discussion that is always timely and needed. The pieces that Riana discusses brought so much awareness to aspects within myself and I am sure it will do the same for you. This is one conversation that you will not want to miss.

Books:

Break Free of Toxic Relationships to Have the Love You Deserve  #1 BESTSELLER!

LIVE Beyond Your Dreams; From Fear and Doubt to Personal Power, Purpose, and Success

FREE eBook: Why 9 Out of 10 People Struggle in Life & Love; How to Have the Love You Deserve 

Coaching Websites: RianaMilne.com

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This talk with Melissa was such a great one. Sometimes the thing that will propel us forward is so simple that we just overlook it, Simply remove the excuse. Do whatever it takes to squash the things that we utilize as excuses because they are holding us back. Melissa drives this point home in a way that only she can. I am sure you will love her story and her passion for what she does.