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There's trouble at Dhar Mann, and Michael, Mair and I sat down with an in depth conversation about the situation.  Please excuse the slight swear words.

I had the pleasure of speaking again with LaJune Singleton recently, and we had fun catching up. LaJune is an incredible health and nutrition coach, lifestyle coach and author. She is a Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, and provides the tools you need to redefine your mind so that you can create the space necessary for important positive shifts in your health and wellness.

In November and December of 2022, she had zoom meetings about breaking bad habits.  

Her first book, Releasing my Trauma – the Root of Self-Sabotage, can be found everywhere books are sold, and her second book, to be released soon, is called My Daddy is My Angel.

After our first podcast, LaJune inspired me to lose some of the weight I gained during quarantine and when I let her know on LinkedIn, she was extremely supportive!  

The below is taken directly from her website:

HOW I WILL ASSIST YOU WITH IMPROVING

YOUR BOARD CERTIFIED HEALTH AND WELLNESS

As your BOARD CERTIFIED HEALTH COACH, here are the TOP FIVE areas I will coach you in:

1. IDENTIFYING YOUR HEALTH VISION AND GOALS SO YOU CAN GET FOCUSED

2. CREATING A DETAILED ACTION PLAN FOR ACHIEVING YOUR HEALTH GOALS

3. KEEPING YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS

4. CELEBRATING YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS AS YOU REACH IMPORTANT MILESTONES

5. PROVIDING ONGOING SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGEMENT AS YOU NAVIGATE THE PROCESS

LaJune’s contact information is:

www.lajunesingleton.com

www.instagram.com/iamlajunesingleton

www.linkedin.com/in/lajune-singleton

and a youtube achannel – you will have to google that one!

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Best Selling Author, Dana Watson. Dr. Watson is an amazing person, who holds three master degrees, is a licensed and ordained minister, author and has an honorary doctorate in Leadership and Divinity.

Dr. Watson is known nationally as a dynamic speaker, author, and expert in holistic healing. She uses humor and transparency to connect to her audience to deliver an effective presentation. Her speaking topics include her personal story of domestic violence and how she turned her pain into her purpose, healthy relationships, fatherhood, nourishing the body, and healing from trauma.

She is on a mission to rebuild one heart at a time, as she is best known for advocating for domestic violence victims, facilitating healthy relationship classes, and ministering to the youth of Norfolk, VA. She has successfully turned her pain into purpose.

Dr. Watson has a heart to give back, as she has provided free services to women and men who are ready to escape abusive relationships as a volunteer in facilitating groups at Deerfield Correctional Center for Women and the Norfolk Juvenile Detention Center.

As a founding board member of The O.A.T. Foundation, the Outreach Advisory Team, she focuses on strengthening a supporting and cultivating families. “Building safer communities and restoring broken homes: One family at a time.”

She has a background in counseling and takes a holistic approach to healing. Healing starts from the inside out, and Dr. Watson helps find out the issues. She specializes in individuals, couples, and families who have been impacted by stress and/or trauma in their lives, relationships, employment or businesses. Coaching and counseling services are offered to youth and adults in individual and/or group sessions. Services also include grief coaching health coaching ADHD, relationship coaching and life coaching.

Check out her website – she is amazing !

Author Lisa Skinner is a behavioral specialist in the field of Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. She is a Certified Dementia Care Trainer through the Alzheimer’s Association.

In her 25-year career as a community counselor, private adviser and Regional Director of senior care facilities, she helped thousands of families and caregivers understand the daunting challenges of brain disease. Her No. 1 Best-seller book “Not All Who Wander Need Be Lost,” was written at their urging.

Her latest book, “Truth, Lies & Alzheimer’s – Its Secret Faces” continues Skinner’s quest of working with dementia-related illnesses and teaching families how they can have a better-quality relationship with their loved ones through education and offering workshops on counter-intuitive solutions and tools to help people effectively manage the symptoms of brain disease. Lisa Skinner has appeared on many national and regional media broadcasts.

Her website is www.truthliesalzheimers.com

I spoke to Clayne Wayman recently. He is the coolest guy in Utah – but we already knew that! We’ve chatted on several other occasions. Clayne’s parents are part of the Fundemental Latter Day Saints. His father has five wives. I’ll link the previous podcasts below.

His book - Echoes of Resounding Love – A True Story of a Polygamous Kid’s Journey to Spiritual Awakening,’ a book by Inspired Thought Leader written by Clayne Edward Wayman, has become an international bestseller. The book has hit bestselling status in the US, the UK, and Canada in 29 categories and is available on Amazon and other online bookstores.

Last year (2022), Clayne was diagnosed with a form of thyroid cancer. Rather than go the traditional route – removal of the thyroid and then medication for life – Clayne went to the Amazon for three months. His doctor was not happy about his decision.  Western medicine is not always the best medicine. 

Clayne had previously studied herbology and shamanism and always knew if he was diagnosed with a life threatening illness, he would go the plant medicine route. He came back from the Amazon with a new spirituality.

The Amazon has over 40,000 plants. 70% of plants treating cancer come from the Amazon. His journey in the Amazon is amazing.

So, buy the book and listen to the previous podcasts. You will be amazed.

https://anchor.fm/michelemarotta/episodes/Chatting-with-Clayne-Edward-Wayman-e17tv8h/a-a6jekec

https://anchor.fm/michelemarotta/episodes/Chatting-with-Clayne-Edward-Wayman---Episode-2-e19rnro/a-a6rf6p8

I had the pleasure of speaking with Jess Lewis recently and we had a fun conversation. Jess is a trained Chef, Pastaia, Cookbook Author, modern homesteader, and outspoken food security activist. She lives in Western North Carolina where she cultivates, cooks, and leads professional chef retreats.

Her love of pasta making started in Sicily where she lived and learned to make pasta from her Grandmother and Great Aunts. While exploring her family history, which spans from Sicily, France, and the Middle East to Germany, Montreal, and New England, Jess fuses her passion with the cuisines of her ancestors. She has since become one of the experts in her field and teaches the art and history of pasta making as well as creating unique culinary experiences which impress the most seasoned foodie without being fussy.

Mediterranean, local farm-to-table, and apothecaric dishes make her dinner parties and classes truly unique.

Classes and Culinary Experiences are held in various locations around the world and at our modern-day homestead in Western North Carolina. Dinner parties can be scheduled in a variety of locations from your vacation rental or home kitchen to a larger venue.

Are you a restauranteur? Chef Jess is available as a guest chef. Just send her a note with your ideas, location, and we'll brainstorm.

Her newest cookbook will be released this month and her contact information is as follows:

www.culinaryfarmstead.com

www.instagram.com/culinaryfarmstead

I again had the pleasure of chatting with Mirav, Heidi and Beverly about their bestseller book, Lady X. Mirav is in Italy, Heidi is in Monaco and Beverly is in Australia.

We got caught up on what everyone has been doing over the past year and it was fun. Thanks to the magic of zoom, we all got to see each other.

I had to edit out names of people – so will let you guess who they are!

Beverly has been traveling Australia, Heidi has been in Monaco and Mirav has been coaching writers while living in Italy.

Lady X is again a bestseller, and we are all excited about this.

Everyone’s Instagram is in the podcast so sit back, have a cup of coffee or tea and listen for half an hour. It’s a fun conversation.

I had the pleasure of speaking with Wendy Eliot recently. She has lived an incredible life. She was in a cult, became a nurse, teaches. Wendy is amazing.

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This book is for those who get ‘Sunday night nerves’ at the thought of going back to work on Monday, for those who get a queasy stomach before exams.

This book is for those who choose not to do something in case they make a fool of themselves, who have that little devil sat on their shoulder whispering all sorts of commentary to stop them doing something out of the norm.

This book is for those who are in a job they hate but worry about doing something different, who reach for the wine glass as soon as they get home, because they deserve it, because they’ve put up with all of the days stress at work.

This book is for those who feel they are different to everyone else, and nobody quite understands why they feel how they do.

This is for anybody who at any time in their lives has been worried or anxious about a future event.

It takes you through the authors experience of her own worries and provides you with some amazing tools to help you process your worry and anxiety. Make use of those tools. You will be astounded.  AND - I no longer  have the Sunday night anxiety!

I had the pleasure of speaking with Tommy Anderson recently. I met him a few weeks ago at an event honoring the late Paul Sorvino. Paul Sorvino was not only an actor, but a veteran and a member of the American Legion, Post 43. I met Tommy at this event.

Tommy was Army/Air Force, and currently an actor, writer, author, filmmaker and podcaster.

He joined the military (Army) after high school. He went transferred from the Army to the Air Force – I didn’t know you could do that! He was a medic, and after a firefighter. What doesn’t he do?

Well ---

Tommy Anderson is a best selling author and award winning photographer/artist living in the Los Angeles area. An accomplished screenwriter and Associate Producer on the film based on his best selling novel "Haboob Wind", Tommy is also an actor in both television and film.

Anderson is a founding member Movie Muse Productions independence film company in Temecula, CA. Tommy was part of VetPics' first film (in post production), "Life after Oblivion", (based on the story 'Oblivion' for the San Diego Film Consortium's Armed Forces Film Challenge) was written and co-produced by Tommy.

In addition Tommy has co-hosted and has appeared on several Southern California radio talk show programs.

Most recently he was the face of the national Spotify commercial as the man with the dancing dog. He is a co-host with Take it Back with Tommy & Tina podcast on IQ Podcasts Studio.

Tommy has written a new novel "Two Million Steps" which is now being publication. Tommy has co written several award- winning screen plays.

Before moving to the Los Angeles area Tommy lived in Madison, Wisconsin. He was a career firefighter/paramedic with the Madison, WI Fire Department and retired from the US Air Force Air National Guard.

Tommy is a board member with US4Warriors Foundation, and a member of  the Hollywood American Legion Post 43, Veterans in Media and Entertainment, and the US Press Association as well as a photo-journalist with the California American Legion Press Association.

So – he became an actor, writer, etc.

Tommy has written three books, and is currently writing a screenplay.

He can be found at:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm9403059

https://resumes.actorsaccess.com/TommyAnderson

https://www.thetommyanderson.com

and Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/Tommy-Unleashed.

His Podcast is The Real Tommy Unleashed Show, on Spotify, etc.

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Greg Simakovski. Greg’s story is interesting, unique and extremely newsworthy.

Greg’s wife’s family lives in the Ukraine. His wife was in the Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the day of the Russian invasion.

Greg talks about his wife’s journey out of the Ukraine and his 501(c) (1), www.goukraine.org. His goal is to provide housing, medical supplies and clean water to the Ukraine.

Please go to his website, and help support his cause.