Join in the adventures of someone whose boyhood was spent on the Caribbean, Grenadine island of Carriacou, one filled with the culture brought from Africa, via the Middle Passage, and maintained despite the hardships of the plantations. 

Continue with Alfred as he pursues medical education whilst rafting and reggae dancing in Jamaica, then enjoying junkanoo in the Bahamas, following the Knicks in New York, admiring the majesty of the Hawaiian scenery, and bracing himself against the cold winds of Ottawa. Return with him to practise in Grenada, then onwards to South America to teach in Suriname where different races unite, but with time for football in Brazil, tango in Argentina, and savouring the rums of Guyana. 

Follow Alfred to Dominica, the Nature Island, to the carnival in Trinidad, and to the yachting capital, the BVI in the Antilles. Settle with him and his family as they garden and dine on stew-conch in Freeport, Bahamas. Come sail and fly with Alfred!

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Charles and Bismarck discussed Bismarck’s medical training and career journey, including his path from Kenya to the US for medical education and his upcoming faculty position at LSU. They explored challenges in medical care, including fragmented systems, communication issues, and the dominance of electronic health records, while also discussing the significant student debt burden faced by medical students and doctors. The conversation concluded with a discussion about acute care surgery and their shared experiences of perseverance in pursuing medical careers, with plans to stay in touch regarding Bismarck’s new practice. Quick recapCharles and Bismarck discussed Bismarck’s medical training and career journey, including his path from Kenya to the US for medical education and his upcoming faculty position at LSU. They explored challenges in medical care, including fragmented systems, communication issues, and the dominance of electronic health records, while also discussing the significant student debt burden faced by medical students and doctors. 

Originally published July 15, 2021. In this encore episode, Dr. Lycka sits down with Kelly Falardeau—once his patient, now a celebrated author, speaker, and mentor. Kelly reveals why writing a book is the ultimate way to boost your profile, serving as both a calling card and an impressive CV. Her proven method can fast-track you toward opportunities in coaching, training, or speaking—and get your book written PDQ.

Guest Bio: Kelly, a burn survivor since age two with scars covering 75% of her body, transformed her journey from near death to the TEDx stage—twice. Her life story inspired the documentary STILL BEAUTIFUL and a Goalcast video with nearly 10 million views. Now a full-time Best-Selling Author Strategist, she coaches others to achieve bestseller status. On Christmas Day 2020, Global TV named her one of the year’s Most Inspirational People.

WEBSITE: www.7StepsAuthor.com  or www.KellyFalardeau.com

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Rhae-Ann Holoien—Superintendent of Battle River School Division—shares powerful insights from her 30+ years in education. From growing up in a family of educators to leading division-wide transformation, Rhae-Ann reveals how she builds inclusive school cultures, prioritizes well-being, and leads with authenticity. Whether you’re a teacher, leader, or education advocate, you’ll gain practical strategies and renewed inspiration to help students and staff thrive.

Guest Bio: Rhae-Ann has over 30 years of experience as an educator and is in her second year as superintendent in the Battle River School Division. She is passionate about fostering educational excellence, supporting staff and students, and ensuring all students have access to high-quality learning opportunities. In addition to her professional role, Rhae-Ann is a dedicated mom, wife, daughter, sister, and grandma.

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In this episode, psychologist with over two decades of experience, Dr. Darnell Durrah Jr. PhD, joins Bryce Hamilton LSCSW to discuss how to help our children embrace change. Together they talk about what attributes and traits we can help encourage in children to make them more easily adaptable to change. They also lend tips on how parents and caregivers can help model healthy mindsets around change and encourage children to accept when life throws them a remix. 

Dr. Darnell and Bryce define what a growth mindset is and how to help cultivate a safe space for children to fail and fall into when learning how to deal with consequences and adapt to new beginnings and ending chapters. Finally, they discuss how to tell when children are beyond their scope of capacity and how to recognize when to step in with additional support and resources.

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Dr. Darnell A. Durrah Jr. is a licensed psychologist, Certified Anger Management Facilitator, and founder of Dedicated to Achieving Dreams—a practice centered on hope, healing, and honest dialogue. With over two decades of experience in behavioral health, he supports men, fathers, and professionals who are navigating identity, leadership, trauma, and the pressure to be everything for everyone.

A psychologist with military experience, Dr. Durrah brings a grounded, no-fluff approach to mental wellness—blending clinical insight with real-world experience. He’s the host of The Daddy Durock Show, a podcast where he explores what it means to lead, love, and live with purpose.

But beyond the credentials, he’s a full-time single father of two—and still learning, every day, how to be the kind of parent his kids actually need. It’s that balance—of showing up for yourself while showing up for others—that defines his work and his message.

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Tonight the Crone & Sage start talking about the Loafmas Activities that we are working on over the next season. We are looking at a number of beliefs concerning our practice of Witchcraft to see where we have grown and changed over the last year. In our Lunar Cycle, we are at the last of the Waning Cycle and tomorrow we start our 3 nights that we call the Dark Nights of the Moon where we can’t see it in the night sky. The Liturgy reading done by the Crone is a Praise Prayer this week about My Sacred Three. During the Ritualization of the Everyday, we realized that we are really much more connected to the Lunar Cycle than before and that we need to start deciding what we will be focusing on learning about over the upcoming Dark Half of the Year. Finally, our Sage finishes up with our usual Witchstones Reading about upcoming available energies.

Host Clare continues on location covering her family’s beloved beach area for decades, The Forgotten Coast, along Florida’s Highway 98. This week’s episode features Pedro, the general manager at Eastpoint Beer Company in Eastpoint. Together, they converse about the brewery’s high points especially its location and view at St. George Island bridge. Nature, relaxation, and food/beverage being among the top reasons people travel are spotlighted with tips on where to go and what to do in the secluded small towns from Panacea to Apalachicola.

This week our Seek Reality guest is again for the fifth time Brandy Gillmore. After all, here we are seeking reality together, and Brandy brings us here one of those stories that is very difficult to really even believe. When doctors had given up on her, she figured out how to heal herself. And that is a story that we love to hear! Just briefly, after an accident in 2003 left Brandy Gillmore wheelchair-bound and in terrible pain, doctors told her there was nothing more they could do for her, and this was going to be her life for the rest of her life. But she refused to believe that! She continued to search for a cure, and eventually she discovered cutting-edge research that changed the course of her life. Now she made a complete recovery! But for our wonderful friend, Brandy Gillmore, that was just the beginning. After she healed herself in 2010, she didn’t want to just “talk” about her healing, but she wanted to help others see certain proof that our minds really do possess the power to heal our bodies! And she wanted to PROVE that to the medical community! So in 2015, Brandy made that goal a reality when, for the first time, she was able to demonstrate self-healing in real-time under thermal medical imaging. Then soon after that, she was invited to deliver a TEDx talk, which was a pivotal moment for her!  

    Since then, Brandy has continued to demonstrate amazing healing results using medical thermal imaging. She demonstrates these results on her own podcast, which is called Heal Yourself. Change Your Life, and in speaking engagements for medical professionals and general audiences. Her book is called Master Your Mind and Energy to Heal Your Body. And it’s a must-read. Especially if you have health issues! The plain fact is that our minds really do possess an extraordinary ability to heal our bodies that is far beyond any placebo effect. And Brandy’s book, and her pioneering work together help everyone to understand the missing link to mind-body healing. They provide a simple, step-by-step process that helps everyone understand how we all can access this healing potential of our own minds. Brandy’s website is brandygillmore.com.

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There’s no greater emotion, than love
It pulls you in like a whirlpool …
It pulles more, like a magnet as your love grows
It sucks you out when there’s no love
It grows more and endless, when you truly love

40 years ago, at 20 I found love …
My heart expanded more than a rubber band
At 25, a wedding band on my finger
5 years later, a son
40 years anniversary love grew like Mt. Everest

Love is not about who wins or lose
Love is not a contest about looks
Love is not you’re mine and am yours
No body owns nobody but, it is a flower to view
Beginning to grow and wanted to be nurtured …

The question could be …
Which flower you want to be?
Which one to choose, if you could?
What color, which instruction you should read
To let it be and let it all grow to the fullest?

Should you let it be view?
Should you preserve and admire it?
What length you would go to keep it forever?
Is a baby that came from you …
As you realized, it’s yours indeed to enjoy 4ever

Love is not a toy …
Love is a rose with no thorns, because you loved
Love is a burn that hurts, when you forgot 2love
Love cures the soul, and is music to your soul
Love grows, when your heart felt another heart

Love is two souls
Love is two in one
Love is two breaths in one
Love is it’s heat of two skins
Love is heat of two skin, sharing as one
Love forgives because, it’s free

Love is two hearts beating as one
Love is two birds
Love is two humans bringing life into this world
Love is crying from your heart when he’s sad
Love is crying from your heart when he’s in pain

Love wakes up with the sun
Love never dies when you are in love
Love spells A M O R, amor in Spanish
A more love, that is microscopic til endless more
A world should always have love,
always more of it …

Without love
The sun ends
Because, there are no souls to witness beauty
Beauty the continuation of life’s processes
A babe born, a flower blooming and a married … couple whom have endured 40 years of bliss

What is bliss, if there’s no love?
What is bliss without being nurtured?
What is bliss if waters are none?
Let’s take questions and give answers
Love is kind and never jealous …

Love is sweeter than honey
Love is tough but never rough
Love is a rose without thorns
Because, two hearts become one
It removed those thorns to avoid being cut
Because, there was love …and still is love

What are the secrets of 40 years togetherness?
You have to give space
You have to feel one’s heart
You have to give yours divinely
… so your sweetheart can live

You have to be able to feel his heart
You have to be able
Be his surgeon without an MD degree
You must able to take a stand for him
You should open your heart to him
Give him a hug and kiss him good nite, every nite

When you look at him
Give him all your dreams
Trust him with your life
Accept his faults and the not goods
Know his human’s just like you

Forgive him a hug
Be nice … to him
Love him endless
If he gets mad, let it be short
Make up, give him a hug

Say often, as much as you can
I love you … I love you, I will always love you
I adore you now, today and tomorrows
With sorrows and none
Am here, to pick you up

I forgot, am never perfect
My love is close to that of perfection for you
My heart is yours till the day, I die
My life is better with you in it
Why? Because, I found love

40 years with you
Seems, like today?
What happened to all of yesterday’s?
Like a quiet wind waking up as was asleep
All went so very fast … because, there was
Plenty of love

Of course …
Plentiful love
How do I begin to describe love?
Is a volcano exploiting and spitting out lava
Love what color?

You chose …
I know, my love is red to match my blood
It could be pink, to match my womanhood
Is purple to match my lips …
It’s sweet like my faith, with God in it

My love of 40 years?
Looks like an unknown rose
Perhaps a white Lilly
No, an orchid of an unknown nature
That’s because is name Minervalilliosa purposa

Is a marisposa … a butterfly with an esposo, husband a butterfly that learned to fly high
When it found love
40 years ago
Now been set free to love even more and explore

I found a planet
I found a seed
I found a new life waiting to be …
Near both, a life that waited and found love

There’s no limits to love
How far she could go
She doesn’t go alone
She takes love, everywhere she goes
Her escort, her love everywhere it shows

She has a heart …
She didn’t know she had
She had a heart full of love
She was so quiet …
She sat quietly in every single class front row
Her brother died …
Her favorite brother
Her sweetheart walked in same name, Jose
Her life changed
A sweetheart came to be

40 years later …
It was August 25, 2025
40 years came …
An anniversary her love
… in her heart

He grows …
Every day more and more
She grows with him
She looks forward
Toward the the very end

Until the sun comes
She’ll go …
Follow the sun
He will always be there
In her heart …

The stunning Selena Mirrell, formerly a famed fashion model, marries young to the wealthy and charming Victor LaRoche. Her storybook romance becomes a living nightmare as Victor reveals his true, dark nature. When his behavior turns to violence, Selena fears the worst. She runs for her life but soon finds there is no place to hide. 

Settling in the small, infamous town of Andersonville, Georgia, she is determined to make it her last refuge—or the site of her last stand. Selena builds a home and finds a new career, but old troubles plague her. When Victor remarries, Selena hopes she has escaped her past, but unsettling events are occurring around her. Amid murders, kidnappings, and mysterious strangers coming and going, it isn’t clear who is friend or foe. 

A fascinating child enters her life, and Selena meets an enigmatic, widowed detective who wants to love and protect her—because Victor is determined to hunt Selena down and bring her back to him. She is about to find out to what lengths he will go.

Selena must summon her strength and courage when Victor’s unpredictable behavior escalates and threatens her most valuable possessions.