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Episode 27:
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to learn how to raise your matrix and find sunshine with Dr. Victor Manzo, who is also the author of Decoding the Matrix, Powerful Tips for Unleashing your Potential Accelerating your Spiritual Awakening.
Dr. Manzo is a Business Mindset Coach, Certified Pediatric Chiropractor, Author, Podcaster, and Speaker. He is the author of 3 books, the most recent one entitled “Decoding The Matrix," which came out in May 2022. Dr. Manzo has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs learn how to create their dream life effortlessly through sharing principles of living in the Quantum world. He shares many concepts that relate to spiritual truths, Universal Laws, Quantum Physics, Neuroscience, Limiting Beliefs, Leveraging One’s Mindset, Reconditioning of the Subconscious Mind, and much more to achieve these concepts.
Dr. Manzo has the following advice and powerful insights to elevate your lives:
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
To read the first chapter of Dr. Victor Manzo's new book Decoding the Matrix, go to www.EmpowerYourReality.com/links
To connect with Dr. Manzo, please go to:
Business Mindset Coach (@drvicmanzo) • Instagram photos and videos
(5) Dr. Vic Manzo Jr | Facebook
Dr. Vic Manzo - CEO/President - Empower Your Reality | LinkedIn
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Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 26
join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to learn Vin (short for Vincent) Infante's advice on mastering your mindset.
Vin Infante has over a decade of experience in mental health and worked with thousands of people. Vin is a former New York City firefighter and is currently a psychotherapist and master mindset coach. He addresses the deeper psychological aspects of the subconscious mind, neurology, and physiology, and how these aspects go hand in hand to create a more aligned and powerful life. Vin has also been featured in Forbes, NY Weekly, International Business Times, Entrepreneur, and a few other places discussing how people can create massive shifts and highlighting that in his hybrid coaching services.
Vin Infante has the following personal growth tips:
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
To connect with Vin, please go to :
https://go.vincentinfante.life/visionboard, a free mission board template. This helps people learn the proper way to do a vision board without the fluff. This will help listeners actually create a vision board that supports their goals and journey in life without being a decorative wall piece.
Vin Infante, LMSW - Psychotherapist & Master Mindset Coach - VI Coaching LLC | LinkedIn
Mindset Coach & Therapist (@vin.infante) • Instagram photos and videos
(4) Vincent Infante | Facebook
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 25:
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to find out how to get rid of grey drinking with Carrie Schell, author of The Grey Drinking Reset: a 30-Day Journey to Wellness.
Three decades ago Carrie Schell began her career as a midwife. Over the years, her role in the health and wellness space has evolved with graduate school, becoming a yoga instructor, and as a Director of Health and Wellness, creating innovative programs at an addiction center. She is presently a speaker and author. Carrie's latest book is full of warmth, humor, and wisdom to help women who are grey drinkers, women who aren't alcoholics but have an unhealthy relationship with alcohol, create wellness in their lives.
Carrie's mind, body, and spirit approach to wellness, along with her humor and wisdom, resonates with others in their desire to seek health.
Carrie Schell offers the following advice:
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
To buy Carrie Schell's book, go to Amazon and purchase it.
To connect with Carrie, go to her website.
Carrie Schell (@meetcarrieschell) • Instagram photos and videos
carrie schell - Principal and Consultant - Carrie Schell.com | LinkedIn
Carrie Schell - YouTube
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 24
Join our hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to find out how to start from scratch with author Osnat Benari, who encourages everyone to follow their passion and make things happen by having a plan. She details all that in her wonderful and inspiring book Starting From Scratch: Managing Change Like Your Career Depends On It.
Osnat Benari is a product and leadership coach for companies and professionals.
She has over 20 years of product management experience working for companies like Diligent, Verizon Media, We Work, and BBG Ventures and named one of the product-led-growth top influencers. Osnat is an advocate for resilience and mental health in the workplace.
Osnat Benari has great practical advice to making meaningful changes in one's life, as well as not be afraid to start from scratch. She offers a six-step method for anyone to start from scratch:
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
To buy Starting from Scratch: Managing Change Like Your Career Depends On It, go to wherever books are sold on Amazon, and more.
To connect with Osnat Benari, please follow her:
Osnat (Os) Benari - Product & Strategy Consultant - DragonsCanFly | LinkedIn
(11) Osnat Benari | Facebook
https://www.startingfromscratchthebook.com/
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 23:
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa for the last episode of the year, which has Japanese and Romanian New Year's traditions, as well as the quote and the joke at the beginning of the episode.
My runner friend and book club member Christine Ward and I discuss the books we read in 2022. We each had two favorite ones that we discuss more in-depth.
1. Between Two Kingdoms – by Suleika Jaqouad, a memoir
2. Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell, nonfiction
3. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, novel/fiction
4. Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr, novel
5. Empire of Pain, The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by Patrick Radden Keefe, nonfiction – a powerful book and one of the most impressive feats of journalism.
6. Bewilderment by Richard Powers, novel
7. Finding the Mother Tree by Suzanne Simard, nonfiction
8. The Sweetness of Water by Nathan Harris, novel
8. All the Lovers in the Night by Mieko Kawakami, named best literary fiction for 2022. I discovered this Japanese author in London. I bought her signed book Heaven and absolutely loved it! Her writing flows like a river; although it is deep, it has a beautiful simplicity.
9. No One is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood, novel
10. San Fransicko Why Progressives Ruin the Cities by Michael Shellenberger, nonfiction
11. Crying in H-mart by Michelle Zauner, memoir
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
Please follow your host Carmen Micsa, Broker/CEO with Dynamic Real Estate, BA/MA in English, podcaster:
Carmen Micsa (@carmenseedsofsunshine) • Instagram photos and videos
Carmen Micsa | Facebook
To purchase my tennis and poetry books, please go to Amazon, or wherever books are sold, or check out my author website:
Carmen Micsa (carmenmicsabooks.com)
To buy or sell a home with me, please visit my website:
Sacramento Real Estate | Carmen Micsa (dynamicsacramentohomes.com)
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 22
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to learn how Amy Kelly, B St and movie actress, can memorize thousands of lines. Also, learn about Kelly's three tips on helping students and adults memorize things faster and even make it more fun.
Amy Kelly is a member of the B Street Theatre Core Acting Company. Recent Mainstage credits include Lovers & Executioners, Dance Nation, The House on Haunted Hill, The Ladies Foursome, One Man, Two Guvnors, and Treatment. Recent Family Series credits include A Christmas Carol, Charlotte’s Web, The Sword in the Stone, The Wizard of Oz, and A Year with Frog and Toad. Writing credits include Treatment and Surprise Party at the End of the World (New Play Brunch - October 2018). Amy is also a teaching artist with the B Street Theatre Conservatory. You can see her sing with her band Mustache and Cleavage upstairs @the B. Her film credits include Nick and Tristan Go Mega Dega (2010), West Hollywood Motel (2013), Honest Abe the Backstory (2020), and many others. She was featured in one of LA’s longest-running comedy shows All About Walken: The Impersonators of Christopher Walken. TV credits include Free Radio, New York Goes to Hollywood, and Netflix's Thirteen Reasons Why. Special thanks to all who run the Sofia Theatre, the incredible cast of The Lost Claus, her family, her spouse, and their three children.
Amy Kelly offers great insight into her passion for theatre and explains why we should all see more plays:
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To connect with Amy Kelly, please follow her:
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 21
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to learn how SRA elite master runner Jacob Nur found his passion in life and how you can do the same. Jacob Nur is also the fastest master elite American runner in the 5K distance in the 65 to 69 age group. He broke the national record by 31 seconds, running his 5K in 17 minutes, which is a 5:28 per mile/pace.
Jacob Nur is a 67-year-old Eritrean American, who immigrated to the USA in 1984. The challenges he faced as an immigrant and more importantly upon his arrival here in the USA gave me so much mental strength to look at life from a growth perspective. Jacob received his Bachelor of Science in Nursing from San Jose State University and further obtained his Masters of Science in Nursing from Dominguez State University. As a registered nurse, Jacob has worked in various specialties. He also was promoted to a leadership role, ending his role as a chief nurse before his retirement.
In his mid-50s, Jacob discovered running as a hobby. In no time, he fell in love with it. After a few years, Jacob could run faster and surpass his own expectations by becoming a world-class runner for his age group.
Jacob Nur has great fitness and mental tips:
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
To connect with Jacob, follow him on FB and IG:
Jacob Idris Nur (@yacob.nur) • Instagram photos and videos
Thank you for listening and keep shining, as my wonderful new podcaster friend Adrian Starks wished me. Adrian is the host of Your Purposeful Life, and you should definitely check out his amazing podcast.
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to learn about discovering more meaning and purpose in your life.
Adrian Starks is a motivational speaker, Host of Your Purposeful Life podcast, voice narrator, writer, mental health advocate, and entrepreneur. He believes that we as humans are on this planet for three things: To learn, to grow, and fully express ourselves. In the midst of that cycle of life experiences, is what Adrian often calls the human mess. He believes that in order to do all three we must be willing to understand the mess as part of the process and develop ourselves to become more purposeful about our lives and be the change that we seek.
Adrian Starks has great tips for us to become more purposeful:
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To connect with Adrian Starks, please follow him:
Your Purposeful Life
Adrian Starks (@_adrianstarks) • Instagram photos and videos
Adrian Starks | Facebook
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 19
Join our hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to learn how Brooke Siem went from winning the 'Chopped' competition to writing May Cause Side Effects, a powerful and beautiful memoir about anti-depressant withdrawal. Also, find out how Brooke's mom Dee Barbash played a crucial role in her daughter's healing journey.
Brooke Siem was among the first generation of teens to be medicated with antidepressants. Her debut memoir MAY CAUSE SIDE EFFECTS, was published in September 2022 and was named one of Good Morning America's Most Anticipated Reads. She is also a Food Network "Chopped" champion & author.
Dee Barbash finally followed her calling and became one of fewer than 100 worldwide Compassion Key practitioners who have earned Master Certification in the United States.
Brooke Siem and her mother Dee Barbash offer powerful advice regarding living life with more light and overcoming depression through the right modality of healing:
On this Seeds of Sunshine episode:
Brooke's interviews on Dying to Ask podcast and Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books will also shed more light on her struggle with antidepressant withdrawal.
To buy her memoir and connect with Brooke Siem:
About - Brooke Siem Brooke Siem
Author | Speaker | Chef (@brookesiem) • Instagram photos and videos
(4) Brooke Siem | Facebook
Also, please follow Dee Barbash
Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
Episode 18
Join your hosts Carmen and Sophia Micsa to find out how to break running records and run with joy with Mira Loma cross country coach Paul Ioanidis.
Paul Ioanidis resides in Sacramento, California. From a young age, growing up in a military family, attending two different elementary schools, two different middle schools, and three high schools, Paul learned the importance and meaning of sacrifice, self-reliance, and community support. His parents modeled that lifestyle in their commitment to family, community, and our country.
In 2015, Paul became the head cross-country and distance coach at Mira Loma High School. The team has grown to 45 athletes and achieved success not seen in 30 years. Under his leadership, a Varsity team has advanced to the San Joaquin Section Meet five out of the last six seasons and an individual to CIF State Meet 5 times as well. In 2015, ten days after his 50th birthday, Paul accomplished his personal goal and ran the Boston Marathon after qualifying the prior summer in Eugene, Oregon. In his spare time, Paul enjoys cooking, working on home projects, hiking, skiing, and some occasional running.
Coach Paul's running philosophy:
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Support the show
Full editing credit & art design to my daughter Sophia Micsa.
There are three ways to support our podcast:
1. You can become a monthly subscriber to our podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1999885/support to help us continue our journey of sprinkling as many seeds of sunshine your way. When you become a subscriber, we will also give you a shout-out on our next episode and promote your business! No strings attached and you can cancel at any time.
2. Please donate any amount at https://ko-fi.com/carmenmicsa.
3. To follow me on social media, buy my books, or contact me about real estate, please visit https://linktr.ee/carmenmicsa, or email me at [email protected]
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