SecondWind with Joyce

Christina E. Foxwell survived domestic violence, unfaithful behavior, intense rejection, and judgment. She is now the founder of Ignite Purpose where, over the past decade, she has supported leaders in their navigation of their teams and helped people find their purpose and flow. This has led to her supporting them in their own life-changing journeys to follow their passions, transform their lives, and grow into the people they were always meant to be.

Foxwell is the author of four books. Her first two works are children's books on emotional intelligence, The Adventures of Oscar the Pufferfish: Owning My 'Pop' and The Story of Astra the Unicorn Finding Her Belonging. Her third book Grow Me is a guide to growth. Her latest book, The Glass Angel, is a powerful look into transformation change and perseverance.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Christina's personal journey and transformational moments
• The importance of learning to accept where you are in spite of your past
• Post-traumatic stress disorder and the effect on Christina's life
• How Christina escaped a violent marriage

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Entering midlife as a woman can come with difficult transitions. In this episode, you will learn from one woman's journey into midlife and her passion to help support other women as they undergo major life transitions.

Jean Macdonald, aka "The Midlife Midwife," is an author, educator, blogger, as well as love, sex, and gender expert. Jean believes that Midlife Women can change society and the world when they believe in themselves. She has created the New Midlife Woman Community to help them build a better lifestyle and lovestyle, which will fulfill them for the second half of their lives. She is the author of Love, Sex, and the Midlife Woman, and founder of the Midlife Butterfly Club. She has created an online course called How to Find Love in Middle Life with some help from the Game of Chess.

Jean worked in business and marketing for many years and then founded a multimillion business in the North West of England. Since then she has written many self-development books and run several education enterprises.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Jean became passionate about supporting midlife women
• The support groups and courses Jean offers midlife women
• How the midlife transition can be a transformation that you want it to be
• The loss of confidence midlife often brings and how to use it as an opportunity instead of a hardship
• Leaning into your feminine power
• Skills women have that are underrated

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

Sally K. Norton should have been the picture of health. She exercised regularly; did yoga; and ate a well-researched diet chock full of wholesome, nutritious foods. She even had an Ivy League degree in Nutrition.

But her health was far from fabulous. She suffered from several physical and cognitive impairments including chronic fatigue, severe joint pain, and kidney problems. Doctors couldn't figure out why someone so young and "healthy" could be so unwell. Sally never imagined that her health problems could be related to her beloved health foods. After her career in health research and medical education ended due to her worsening condition, Sally finally connected the dots and recovered her health by lowering her oxalate intake.

Sally K. Norton, MPH holds a Nutrition degree from Cornell University and a Master's degree in Public Health from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. Her path to becoming a leading expert on dietary oxalate includes a prior career working at major medical schools in medical education and public health research. Her personal healing experience inspired years of research that led to her forthcoming book, Toxic Superfoods, which is available HERE and everywhere books are sold.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The health crisis happening in our country and how Sally is on a mission to help people heal with nutrition
• How Sally was eating all the foods she thought were healthy, yet she still struggled with her health
• What oxalates are and why you should avoid them
• How to know you're dealing with oxalate overload

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Gene Bennett is a twice-deployed Iraqi Freedom veteran who shares the gut-wrenching story of his time as a prison guard at a transitional internment facility, in his book, We Did Not Deserve the Crapper: The prison we entered but never fully left. This was the only prison in all of Iraq to house juvenile detainees. In this episode and in his book, he tells the story, of his journey in the Marines, his two deployments, and his PTSD diagnosis and recovery journey. With a diagnosis of PTSD from the VA, Gene Bennett explores and chronicles the kind of dysfunction that only war and family can inflict upon you.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Gene got involved in the Marines
• His two deployments and how things took a turn for the worse
• Gene's time in Baghdad in a juvenile detention center
• What he learned during times of imminent danger
• Gene's experience post-military life dealing with the VA and PTSD

You can download and read his incredible story here.

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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How can we make this new year better than the ones before, not only for ourselves but for our families and those around us? What are some practical steps to make changes that stick? This episode featuring Sandra Beck will give you new tools to embrace a new year with a positive mindset.

As an Author, Coach, Speaker, Radio Host, Entrepreneur and Philanthropist, Sandra Beck is as successful as she is busy. The single mother of two young boys has created a virtual empire of successful companies entirely staffed, managed and implemented using a host of virtual assistants and on-line resources. An active contributor and participant in many charities, Beck strives to make the world a better place for today's and our future's children.

What You'll Learn from this Episode:

• How to end the year and begin a new one without stressing yourself out
• The importance of finding time to rest, even when you're busy
• How to set intentional goals that work for your lifestyle
• Prioritizing taking care of yourself like you do for the others in your life
• How to evaluate what is working, and what needs to change
• Creating a task manager that fits your needs
• How to recalibrate after an emergency situation throws off your plans

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

Website | Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn

You can learn more from Sandra on any of her popular podcasts, including Motherhood Talk Radio, Military Mom Talk Radio, Coach Talk Radio, or Powered Up Talk Radio.

In this solo episode, Joyce Buford reflects on the meaning of the holiday season, sharing encouragement from one of the classic Christmas carols by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day:

"I heard the bells on Christmas day

Their old familiar carols play,

And wild and sweet the words repeat

Of peace of earth, good will to men."

Happy holidays to all the listeners!

Isn't it fun to EXPRESS your truest self outwardly... to SHINE brilliantly... and LIVE unapologetically?

Gina Vincent is a Life Artist & the creator of Exquisitely Aligned, a movement designed to shatter mundane thoughts & mediocrity, one that champions the voice of your soul to be expressed fully, your deepest desires to be embraced, and your gifts to be divinely expressed.

In 2009, while her husband lay fighting for his life with kidney and liver disease, Gina was fighting the collective conformity of their local hospital, the doctors, and their rules. Gina turned inward & took an unwavering stand. She stood 100% for Mark's unlived, amazing future life. Here, she discovered her 3-step strategic solution to live Exquisitely Aligned. Her goal is for you to make YOUR unique difference in the world. Gina believes the world is missing what ONLY YOU have to give.

Gina shares hacks to help elite, professional, & ambitious women find their missing piece in life, allowing them to escape the one-size-fits-all paradigm, and freeing them from the judgment that comes with up-leveling their life. She shares practical tools to remove the guesswork in finding their true destination with shortcuts along the journey. She's known for her relentless positivity, creating safe spaces, & moving others to action. She took adversity and transformed it into discovery and creativity.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• How Gina's husband's battle for his life was the turning point in her own
• The journey to health that led Gina to her program, Exquisitely Aligned
• Gina's program and how she incorporates unique gifting of the individual
• Gina's three keys to living exquisitely aligned
• The growth process as part of the journey to alignment

Gift for Listeners: Journey into what's possible for you - Guided Visualization & Meditation

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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Our busy, modern lifestyles often leave very little room for the natural world. Sometimes, all it takes is a little creativity and a personal awakening to bring the outdoors to our modern life.

Melinda Salisbury is the four-time Carnegie-nominated and bestselling author of multiple young adult novels, including the Sin Eater's Daughter series, the State of Sorrow duology, Hold Back the Tide, and Her Dark Wings, a Guardian Children's Book of the Year 2022 and a The Reading Agency Book of the Year 2022 pick.

Her first novel, The Sin Eater's Daughter, was the bestselling UK YA debut novel of 2015, and collectively her books have been nominated and shortlisted for numerous national and international awards and accolades, including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the YA Book Prize, the Branford Boase, the Edgar Awards, the 2016 and 2019 and 2021 Carnegie medals, YALSA Best YA 2022, Eason's YA Book of the Month, and more. Her books have been published in fifteen countries, to date.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Her journey as an author
• How her love for nature allowed her to get back in touch with it as an adult
• How Melinda started growing food right where she was, on her windowsill
• The types of books Melinda writes as a way to offer hope for young people
• What is coming up next for Melinda and her writing

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

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Life often brings multiple forks in the road. What unravels is due to expectation and choice and planning to deal with risk and change. Today's episode focuses on one woman's journey to choose to soar through life.

A sassy South African native transitioned to a proud citizen of New Zealand and now happily domiciled in Australia, Kelly Markey's life and knowledge has touched and conveyed remediable to souls globally. Kelly is passionate about making a difference in the lives of others and see herself as a channel - a conduit for insights, lessons gleaned and inspiration. Markey has over 30 years of professional experience in health IT, including working internationally in 5 different countries for major world gorillas.

Kelly has inspired and supported thousands of people to navigate their own pivotal life moments. Kelly champions awareness towards making an excellent brand by transforming your mindset. Kelly consciously works to reduce the trauma and ignorance that surrounds racism and discrimination by prompting healthy conversations that matter.

As an international bestselling author Kelly has been tagged a Renaissance woman and appeared on several international radio stations and newspapers including three magazine cover futures. Kelly Markey has been inundated with request from a global reader cohort to write another book - countless people from around the globe have awoken to a vibrantly alive and restored life after reading Kelly's debut book "Don't just fly, soar." She has an advantage of speaking five languages and fellowship being with a broad spectrum of demographics from around the world. Kelly is a paragon that is confident and exhibits solid boundaries both in her professional and personal portfolio.

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• The life changes and choices that led Kelly to who she is today
• How the Covid pandemic led Kelly to writing her memoir and sharing her experience with others
• The global impact of her best-selling novel and how readers have responded
• The importance of learning from those who came before us

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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We only have so many heartbeats in this life, and women can design the life they desire one heartbeat at a time. That is exactly what this episode will share.

As a two-time breast cancer and toxic relationship survivor, Stacey Aaron Domanico has a purpose and passion to help women personally and professionally to overcome obstacles in their lives and become the best versions of themselves BEFORE a catastrophe. She has over 25 years of leadership experience in corporate America for a Fortune 500 company where she learned that her passion was coaching and mentoring women. She left her safe corporate job to coach and mentor full time while writing her new book Where Do You Spend Your Heartbeats?

What You'll Learn in This Episode:

• Stacey's concept of spending your heartbeats and what it means
• Stacey's defining moment of a second diagnosis of breast cancer and how that moved her to make changes
• The choices we make daily that create our lives
• What to do with overwhelming fear and anxiety
• How to make the hard decisions and tune into your body
• How to get rid of negative thoughts

Links Mentioned in This Episode:

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