Linda Beach is a certified Dream Builder Life Coach, who helps others create and build their life dreams.  What's interesting about Linda as a coach are her life experiences. She suffered serious injuries when she crashed while doing her first solo flight on an ultra-light plane, and then years later had foreclosed on her company building, lost her homes and filed for bankruptcy, losing over $1 million in assets. Linda talks about how she recovered from it, how she overcame her fears, and how she followed her dream to move to Belize.  She now helps others overcome their fears, get out from being stuck, and to not just dream but to Dream Big.

Having just graduated from UC Berkeley, you wouldn't guess that twenty-two-year-old Ismael Chamu, and the rest of his siblings and parents were just recently living together in a tiny camper trailer with no heat and no sewer hookups.  Ismael is the son of a migrant worker from Mexico, and is the first in his family to not only attend college, but to graduate from high school. In this interview, he talks about not having a secure place to live nor having enough food to eat while he attended college. Now, his goal is to continue with his education, obtain a graduate degree, and somehow help with the college student housing crisis in the future. This is Ismael's story...

Today's guest is Mary Well, author of six bestselling books, including her latest, The Swiss Chocolate Diet: The Simple and Proven System for Healthy & Everlasting Weight Loss.  Mary shares her struggle of growing up overweight, and even being told by a prospective employer that she was too fat. She years later discovered the “secret” to permanent weight loss isn’t just about diet and exercise. She explains if you neglect your self-image, your weight will continue to yo-yo up and down.  When she was almost 50 years old, Mary lost 60 lbs in 180 days.  Since then she's helped over 27,000 people lose weight. And, yes, she says you can eat chocolate too! 

Mary Shores is the author of Conscious Communications: A Step-by-Step Guide to Harnessing the Power of Your Words to Change Your Mind, Your Choices, and Your Life. Before her success as an author, speaker and entrepreneur, Mary shares her background starting when she was living on her own since she was 16, how in 1992 her daughter was born with brain damage and lived only 1 and 1/2 years, and how later she also suffered from a divorce. Regardless, Mary grew her company to a multi-million dollar business, and here shares her strategies on living a life in alignment and her take on the difference between positive psychology and affirmations.   

Today's guest is Terry McSweeney, a certified fibromyalgia advisor, who also suffers from the disorder.  A cancer survivor, Terry talks about how she began suffering from symptoms that perplexed both her and her doctors.  It wasn't until 10 years later that she was finally diagnosed.  She explains what it is, the myths surrounding it, how it affected her personally, including how her husband was even afraid to hug her because it brought her so much pain.  Terry then took matters into her own hands and became her own advocate.  She now helps others with managing their own conditions and become what she calls, "Fibromyalgia Warriors." 

Today's guest is Justine Renson, author of Leaving The Light -- and loving it: how I woke up, wisened up and walked away from the cult of my birth.   Justine talks about her memoir of what it was like growing up in a cult, what was the catalyst for her to leave it, and the issues she struggled with during and since she left the group called, The Light, over 16 years ago.  Justine also talks about her life today, about her commitment to women's empowerment, and how she wants to help other women who feel trapped or stuck in their lives.  She says that she wants women to know that even when they are sure that they have no other options, that there is always a choice and that we are never alone, even if it feels that way. This is Justine's story...

Monica Michelle is a fellow podcaster, who co-hosts Invisible Not Broken.  As a child, Monica aspired to be a ballerina, but that got halted when she was a teenager due to her illness, or rather the debilitating illnesses she eventually was diagnosed with.  Getting frustrated with the lack of information about them, she's now on a mission to not only build a community of others with invisible disabilities, but also to help educate the public of the existence of these illnesses and shed some light on them. 

Kevin Basham is an entrepreneur who co-founded a seven-figure recycling business in the UK.  He dropped out of college, and yet managed to startup the business with no money and little experience.  Here, Kevin talks about how it wasn't easy and of his start with humble beginnings.  Growing up, he had little confidence, was a shy kid, even bullied, and had other obstacles to jump over along the way.  Yet after joining the work force, he learned he had a knack for sales and business, and is still the director of his company. And if that wasn't enough to do, he's recently added to his plate of being a podcaster and co-hosts Cryptopulse, which helps guide people through the topic of Cryptocurrency.  Here's Kevin story...

Carlana Stone is an author, motivational speaker, and a former TV news reporter and primetime network TV producer.  She's worked on popular shows like A&E's Intervention, The Biggest Loser and Judge Judy, just to name a few.  She's gotten her private pilot's license, she scuba-dives, has sky-dived and rides a custom Harley. She's been interviewed by Montel Williams and has been on Larry King Live, and in 2008 was chosen to become one of ten contestants on Oprah Winfrey's The Big Give.  Carlana's list of accomplishments go on and on.  She's such an inspiration and great role model of never giving up  because at the age of 17, Carlana was in a terrible car accident that left her paralyzed.  In today's interview, we talk about her book, Never Give In, Never Give Up, what she's been doing since she authored it, and the nonprofit she's currently working on, The Courage Community, which assists veterans. Carlana has a lot of great life lessons to share.  This is Carlana's story.

Author and entrepreneur Kay Richardson designed her business to help other women entrepreneurs become more successful.  She's in a way paying it forward from the encouragement she received when she was young.  Homeless at 17, pregnant at 18 and on welfare at 19, Kay struggled to make ends meet and also fulfill her desire to get an education.  She later had to make a tough decision and had her toddler son live full-time with his father so that she can attend college.  Later having suffered through a divorce, Kay has emerged a successful businessperson. She explains it all in her book, What a Woman's Gotta Do: Dig Deep, Make a Decision, Take Action.  This is Kay's story...