The Possibility-Action Network Podcast

Byron Putman graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in mass communication and a minor in speech

pathology from Winthrop University. He is now a producer for the Carolina Panthers Radio Network. He is a native of Belton, SC. Byron is active in his alma mater’s Alumni Association, serving as president in 2022. He and his wife have three children. Byron shares his journey of life in this conversation.

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Max Gleason lost his family in a tragic accident believed to have been caused by a suicidal driver on October 25, 2019. After the tragic loss of his wife and children, Max shares how he is coping with this unspeakable tragedy. Since that event, Max has been on a path of healing through art and by sharing his story to help humanity find a path to beauty beyond trauma.

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Not long after converting to Islam — facing discrimination from other soldiers, disappointment from his Lutheran family, and with more than one citation for insubordination on his record — Shabazz was ready to quit the military. But a chance encounter with a Christian army chaplain not only convinced him to stay in the military but to pursue chaplaincy himself. Nearly three decades later, with his 2018 promotion to colonel, Shabazz is the highest-ranking Muslim chaplain in the U.S. Military. He serves as command chaplain for U.S. Army Central, the three-star command responsible for land operations in the Middle East, according to Army Times. As a child, Shabazz was molested by a family friend — an experience, he said, that put him in an emotional tailspin and left him an angry young man. He spent the 8th grade in special education and failed the 9th and 12th grades. Colonel Shabazz shares his story of having to come back from many setbacks in life, including falling in with the wrong crowd, drinking alcohol, which led to many drunken brawls, being beaten with a shovel, and then shot in the back. His story will inspire and challenge you to believe, belong, and become.

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Teresa King made history by becoming the Army’s first female director of the Army’s Drill Sergeant Training School at Fort Jackson in South Carolina. Now retired, Teresa also attained the rank of Command Sergeant Major in the Army. But her start in life was on a farm in Clinton, North Carolina. One of twelve children, she joined the family growing cucumbers and tobacco to make ends meet. Teresa graduated from Drill Sergeant School she later led. She also served as the administrative assistant to the Chief of Staff of the United States Army at the Pentagon. In 1988, she became the administrative assistant to the Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency. She graduated from Liberty University, is a certified paralegal, and has done work on a doctoral degree. She has been recognized as a history-maker by TheGrio Magazine and named one of Oprah Winfrey’s Top 20 Power Women in the World. Her leadership and commitment to excellence have earned her the moniker, NoSlack.

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Lauren Danielle Porchia is the owner of SOulDIVINE Wellness & Creations, LLC, a mobile holistic brand based in Atlanta, GA.  Lauren Danielle created SOul DIVINE after she went on a personal journey of mind-body-spirit health. Shortly thereafter, she realized that it was her purpose to share this gift with the world. SOulDIVINE specializes in creating in-person and virtual wellness sessions to improve overall well-being. Lauren Danielle's most requested service is called Hula Healing Fitness. This fun, innovative, and effective wellness service involves mind-body-soul fitness with the use of a hula hoop. Hula Healing Fitness has positively impacted thousands of people across the nation by lowering stress and anxiety. Lauren Danielle is also a professional hula hoop dancer affectionately called The Hula Empress. She has been featured in major brands such as VH1, The Michael Colyar Morning Show, AJC NEWS, and more. The mission of SOulDIVINE is to help people to relax.connect.elevate into the best version of themselves.

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Anne was educated at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland and the University of British Columbia in Canada. She is a former teacher and principal of Temple Sholom Religious School where she worked for over twenty years. She is the author of What They Don't Teach in Prenatal Class: The Key to Raising Trouble-Free Kids & Teens. Mentored by Diederik Wolsak, the founder of a methodology that elevates an individual to experience greater peace and wellbeing, Anne experienced a profound transformation that mediated her sense of depression and low self-esteem. Touched by the changes she experienced, Anne joined the Choose Again team and facilitates groups of people seeking to discover their own feeling of peace and wellbeing. She takes pride in providing a safe space for clients seeking to heal their wounds from their journey of life.

To learn more about Anne visit her website at www.anneandrew.com.

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Anna is a mother of three and is retired from the software industry. She is passionate about lifestyle nutrition, spirituality, and health and fitness. She follows a Paleo and Keto eating regime and loves blogging on spiritual, emotional, and physical wellness. Anna connects with people in a way to inspire and empower them to see a better version of themselves beyond any perceived limitations they may face. Her mission is to live life in the present moment and enjoy it to the absolute fullest. Anna was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) in 2009, now living with Secondary Progressive MS. As a disability and chronic illness advocate, she inspires others to live their best life.

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Damarco Wyatt is a modern-day Colin Powell. As Secretary Powell wrote in My American Journey, he floundered until he discovered the military. It was the military that anchored this Brooklyn boy and took him on a journey that landed him in the highest echelons of the military and in the American government. Damarco Wyatt had a similar journey as a noncommissioned officer in the Army. A smart young man, he won five scholarships to good schools in the United States. But college bored him, so he left, and took a job at a big box store. That all changed when he saw a local man returning home while on leave from the Army. His posture, confidence, and the look of a leader broke Damarco’s trance about life. He signed up for the Army, and 25 years later he has risen to the rank of Command Sergeant Major. While in the army he returned to school and earned a degree in supply chain management. He sat with me to share what he learned about discipline, leadership, character, and more while serving his country in the US Army.

Since 2019, Anna and her team at The Insight Alliance strive to uncover the natural resilience and innate mental well-being they know to exist inside all human beings. They share this understanding in the prison system in Portland, Oregon USA. They teach how our feelings, experiences, and state of mind work, which allows people to hit the “reset button” in their lives. When we do, we too can experience real change from the inside out. Program participants have experienced outcomes including decreased stress, anxiety, and depression; improved and mended relationships; increased feelings of connection and trust; reduced obsessive and compulsive behavior and judgmental thinking; an increase in their desire to pursue an education and jobs. Incarcerated persons also become less likely to return to prison after release. These people report a general feeling of well-being as they touch that part of themselves that cannot be broken. Anna, the founder of The Insight Alliance, shares her experience of working with incarcerated people and how she has witnessed how people change from the inside out in human beings.

To learn more about The Insight Alliance visit: https://www.theinsightalliance.org/. Donations made to The Insight Alliance are tax-deductible. The Insight Alliance is a 501(c)3 organization. Tax ID number: 82-5456538.

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Ed Wiens has had a varied career. For almost forty years, he has worked with non-profit organizations, pastoral ministry in the Christian church, social service administrator, development director, etc. Today, Ed is a star player in the network marketing industry. Ed says that the idea of being compensated based on his ability always appealed to him. As a 10-year-old boy, Ed worked in the family side business of selling boiled crabs. His father would catch the crabs and his mother would boil them, Ed said. He was the salesman, and he went door-to-door selling boiled crabs in an Alaskan fishing village for 35 cents each. Ed also sold newspapers on street corners, so, in a way, sharing products was a way of life for him for a long time. Ed learned about network marketing from a family friend. He learned that companies paid representatives to sell their products; then, they allowed these associates to recruit others to sell their products, and the recruiter shared in the production of their sales team. Ed was hooked: “You’ve got to be kidding me,” he exclaimed. “What a concept!” And Edward Weins has been a network marketing professional for forty years. Ed joins me to share what he has learned from the industry that has given him time freedom and financial freedom.