Overcoming Everything

Pooja Khanna is founder of begin to heal but prior to that she was in the corporate world for twelve or thirteen years with companies like Microsoft and Pepsi and IBM but this led her to develop chronic fatigue. We don't realize the amount of stress and anxiety we put ourselves through.   It was only through acupuncture in hypnotherapy that she was able to get back on her own feet and since then Pooja has been a passionate advocate of the space and event went on to build a business in this industry. Pooja takes us through what it takes to overcome the need to keep up, to prove yourself in the corporate world and overall what keeping up with the Joneses looks like today in the modern world. Tune in an learn how founding Begin To Heal helped Pooja Khanna bring her mission to the world at large.

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David Riklan is the founder of SelfGrowth.com, the biggest self improvement site online. Right out of college David went to work for Hewlett Packard, the company sent him to an effective communications course by Dale Carnegie that left such an impact on him he asked the company to send him to the course twice.

When the internet came around David saw the opening he needed to go all in on the career of his dreams.

Find out how David went from going after a Chemical Engineering degree to becoming a self employed Self Help coach.

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Running a company named Parallel HR - Growing up in the east coast in New Jersey and the son of an entrepreneur in a middle class family. Although his dad was absent it taught him that hard work was a natural part of life. After graduating from a university Michael got a job selling home improvements door to door in some of the toughest neighborhoods on the east coast.

Michael fell into a gambling addiction for 20 years, and he believes that it never leaves you but he's made it a life project to overcome it. From Gambling during the day while at work tune in to find out how Michael overcomes his life's biggest challenge.

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One of eight children growing up in Brooklyn, NY from a family of little financial means and a secular education -- Avraham Metal worked tirelessly to overcome his shyness and to define what his dream would be for his life's work. Getting no sense of direction from his older siblings even though they were always there to help Avraham shares how he went into Real Estate for a profession to help him overcome his life obstacles. Listen to Roger and Avraham get deep and in touch with how this life path unfolded.

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Failure is a requirement for success and action sports teaches those lessons. The question to ask is how can we make action sport accessible to third world countries? This is something that Zack and David feel passionate about giving access to the less fortunate -- having left the worse parts of their lives behind after discovering action sports they have since gone off to build skate parks in many foreign countries. Without a coach and without a uniform action sports opens itself up as a avenue of expression for kids who wouldn't have a creative vehicle otherwise. A majority of action sports demands that a lot of equipment be purchased before one could enjoy it and financially restricted kids get left out but DIVERTCity wants to change that around the world.

 

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Being grateful for the obstacles that you feel are in your way are your gift in life. Shiva Bhaskar went to undergrad in UCLA as a Political Science major with the aim of becoming a lawyer - until 2008 when the economic crisis occurs. A firm invited him to fly to NY to meet with partners of a law firm that goes bankrupt. Shiva's opportunity to become an attorney had disappeared with that but he persevered. Listen to Roger interview Shiva to find out how he overcame everything.

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Recovering from a stillbirth with a wife Joe Apfelbaum loves dearly to trusting a business partner enough to leave all of his other businesses behind to focus on growing a multi-million dollar company - Roger interviews Joe to find out how he overcame everything.

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Born In South Africa with only $400.00 in his pocket Erin made the decision to move to the united states with one plan in mind -- Solving his financial problems once and for all. Erin says that his decision to go into real estate was made because in his research work of the most successful people they all had one thing in common, Real Estate. Through this industry he saw the future and placed a bet. This bet had highs and lows from investing in his first house with his last $1000.00 to sleeping in a San Diego parking lot because he was homeless. Listen to Roger talk to Erin about how he overcame everything.

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A lot of teenagers struggle to manage the battle within -- especially teenagers who don't have a good environment to grow up in where alcohol is too easily within reach. Derik Dubbel got his first D.U.I at the age of 18 among other legal battles but his sense of purpose was never lost. When Derik finally saw the effect his music had on people he began to double down on his rapping and singing abilities. Armed with the aim to become a hip-hop revolutionary tune in to get a glimpse into the life of a troubled youth led by his focus on his own potential.

Tune in and Join Roger as he uncovers yet another powerful story of a soul guided by spirit.

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Born In Sudan, In the western region of Darfur, Tony lived through an ethnic cleansing back in 1999 which caused his family to move to AMerica where he experienced a quantum leap of culture shock. Speaking no english and living life believing soda pop was a luxury item you served to a guest--America's abundance an opportunity shocked Tony. It was in the land of the free that he found the strongest urgings from spirit to be more and do more -- his financial troubles led him to investigate the world of consumer law that quickly turned into what he would launch as his professional business -- with the odds stacked against him Tony proved that his outsider perspective actually served as an advantage because what everyone in America took as a birthright (clean and hot water, wifi, etc) Tony saw as a luxury and understood the advantages those luxuries provided him.

Tune in and Join Roger as he uncovers yet another powerful story of a soul guided by spirit.

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