My Independence Report

In this fun episode, Dana and I talk about being on the show and what she will bring as well as her transformative work with People. As great episode!

Julie Gianelloni Connor is an award-winning author and retired senior Foreign Service Officer. Her book, "Savoring the Camino de Santiago: It’s the Pilgrimage, not the Hike," garnered no. 1 status on Amazon in both the category for new books on hiking and walking and the category for Spain and Portugal. It subsequently went on to win an eLit silver medal in the travel category and three other awards. Julie also writes a blog focusing on the Camino, Camino for Boomers.com, which complements her book. Julie’s short stories appear in three anthologies, and she has just released a children’s book (December 2020), "The Baby with Three Families, Two Countries, and One Promise." She is the owner and publisher of Bayou City Press in Houston, Texas, which focuses on travel writing, Houston, history, and international affairs. Julie founded Bayou City Press after spending 33 years as a diplomat in the U.S. Foreign Service, first with the U.S. Information Agency and later with the U.S. Department of State. She had nine overseas assignments in seven different countries: Israel (twice), Paraguay, Guatemala, Indonesia, Colombia (twice), Malaysia, and Chile. In Washington, DC, Julie worked on a variety of matters, ranging from nuclear non-proliferation to narcotics control to women’s issues. She has one son and two cats, Halloween and Charles Augustus IV. Her books can be ordered from her publishing website, BayouCityPress.com, or from her author website, JulieConnorAuthor.com.

I don’t tell people what they should do when it comes to exercise and nutrition. I help make it happen.

Teaching writer and assault trauma advocate Jenifer DeBellis, M.F.A., is author of Warrior Sister, Cut Yourself Free from Your Assault (Library Tales Publishing, 2021) and Blood Sisters (Main Street Rag, 2018). She edits Pink Panther Magazine—an international women’s art and literature journal in its 12th year— and directs aRIFT+ Warrior Project and Detroit Writers’ Guild. When she's not editing or writing for others, she sneaks in time for her own craft, which has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and appears in AWP's Festival Writer, Calyx, the Good Men Project, Literary Orphans, Sliver of Stone, Solstice, and other fine journals. A former fellow for the Meadow Brook Writing Project, JDB facilitates workshops for Oakland University’s MBWP Writing Camps as well as teaches for Saginaw Valley State University and Macomb Community College.

After decades mentoring assault survivors, she's excited to help bring positive change and self-help resources to teen girls, young women, or anyone working to overcome assault trauma. This positive change movement is designed around an integration of trauma-informed recovery literature, outreach initiatives and services, and speaking engagements aimed to reach every survivor, high school, and college counseling center, as well as assault trauma outreach advocates and agencies across the nation (and beyond) who serve them.

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The award-winning Fix Yourself Handbook presents the Process Way of Life, a step-by-step program that can transform your life into one that is happy, healthy, purposeful, and content. Who we are is the product of the interplay between our physical, intellectual, emotional, and spiritual attributes. The Process Way of Life’s fifty-two internal processes will help you create a state of internal balance as these four attributes operate together, providing you with an energy source that can be applied to every part of your life. It will make you stronger personally, enhance all the relationships in your life, strengthen your business relationships, and give you the power to become the person you always wanted to be.

The Process Way of Life is the product of over twenty years of Faust Ruggiero’s research and practical counseling application. In the summer of 2016, Mr. Ruggiero decided to develop the Process Life Program into a text that can be published, and would help people in need address the difficult situations that are affecting their lives. It is your guide on an exciting and enlightening life journey that will touch every part of you. The Process Way of Life creates one of life’s most exciting and wondrous life journeys, and yours is about to begin.

Ron has spent the last fifty years exploring the deepest caves and soaring heights of our personal and spiritual journey. He is intimate with all aspects of the territory. As a guide, he has supported thousands of others on their journey as they've moved through their most difficult challenges and developed their greatest potential. He was trained by and worked with the best of the best, with early mentors like Joseph Campbell, Buckminster Fuller, and other leaders in the spiritual and personal growth fields. Rounding out his whole body, mind, and spirit, integrated approach, Ron has earned a Masters in English, a Ph.D. in Transformational Therapy, and a Doctor of Chiropractic degree. Yet Ron feels that his most important credentials have come from the challenges he has overcome on his own journey, and the incredible learning opportunities that life and working with others has offered him. His service has evolved into working with those committed to their path and the influential leaders who guide them. While there are many who can help you treat the symptoms arising from your challenges, Ron's unique work takes you into and through the deepest source. This empowering approach allows you to make lasting life improvements while transforming those challenges into the greatest opportunities of your life. If you are looking for the way home, Ron is the transformational guide who can show you the way. Ron lives in Santa Barbara, CA with his lovely wife, Carol. email: [email protected]

Mr. Onishi is a Japanese American  who during WW 2 was interned by the US Government for three years. Hear him tell about those times and his incredible

ability to overcome and create a great life for him and is whole family

David Lewis has worked in the life insurance business as an independent agent since 2005. Over the last 16 years, he’s helped develop educational and marketing content for large financial firms like Allstate, New York Life, State Farm, AmTrust, and J.G. Wentworth.