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Motivation Episodes

In this category, listeners can find episodes that offer motivating insights and advice from guests who encourage pursuing dreams and personal growth.
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Sept. 28, 2022

Living the dream with psychotherapist, life and business coach, hypnotist, teacher, speaker and author Susie Hayes

Send us a text With two Master's Degrees in education and counseling, and over 40 years experience as a psychotherapist, life and business coach, hypnotist, teacher, speaker and author, Susie Hayes helps people become and stay FREED from Stuck! She is the author of the award-winning book, "FREED from Stuck! Dare to Cross the Bridge Beyond Grief, trauma, and Self-Sabotage to Discover Lasting Change Now." www.freedfromstuck.com
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Sept. 21, 2022

Living the dream with confidence and image coach Jessie Vo

Send us a text Jessie felt ugly pretty much her whole life... And actually had several people tell her she was ugly! This made Jessie feel insignificant, this made Jessie hide her true feminine self, Jessie wanted to blend in and not attract any attention. Thankfully that didn't stop her from chasing her dreams. Jessie went from feeling ugly to feeling fabulous and loving herself to even coaching models for Fashion Week who then went on to be some of the top models in the world. HOW IT STARTE...
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Sept. 19, 2022

Living the dream with singer/songwriter Vuola

Send us a text VUOLA is a psychedelic rock project of a Finnish drummer, producer and studio manager Jussi Vuola. In his music there’s a shimmer in darkness, a touch in space, beauty in distortion and aspiration in despair. A history of growing with Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the like is being shaped with low tunings, vibration and chanting on his concept album, based both on geometrics and syntax. The anticipated, esoteric, heavy hitting album ”Alouv” is coming out in spring 2022. "These ar...
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Sept. 14, 2022

Living the dream with author and military fighter pilot Dom Slice Teich

Send us a text Dom “Slice” Teich brings his fighter pilot background and applies them to guide pilots, athletes, business owners, and students with afterburner techniques that American fighter pilots use to ensure mission completion. As an Amazon best-selling author, business owner, entrepreneur, civilian and military instructor pilot, he knows that busy individuals and teams struggle with information overload. Since 2002, “Slice” has guided hundreds of students toward their goals. His blueprint...
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Sept. 7, 2022

Living the dream with author Bee Bloeser

Send us a text Author Bee Bloeser knows what it is like to live under a dictatorship in total social isolation. Her family lived on an island cut off from the outside world run by a murderous dictator who burned all the boats, censored mail, and dictated with whom you could socialize. Bee offers an unblinking look at what it was like to represent the U.S. abroad and be an eyewitness to what many experts said couldn’t be done: nations working together to end a pandemic that threatened the world. ...
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Sept. 5, 2022

Living the dream with happiness strategist Monique Rhodes

Send us a text Monique is a Happiness Strategist who teaches students and corporations around the world how to master their lives. She has spent the last 25 years studying the mind and its relationship to happiness and suffering. Over 70 universities and colleges use her program The 10 Minute Mind®. Her 8-week online course, The Happiness Baseline, has a 100% success rate in raising the mental wellness for every student who has completed it. Monique hosts the daily In Your Right Mind podcast, ...
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Sept. 2, 2022

Living the dream with award winning blind painter John Bramblitt

Send us a text John Bramblitt After losing his sight in 2001, John decided to pick up a paintbrush. He never expected anyone to see any of his paintings; he just knew he needed to reconnect with the visual world he had lost. Since then John’s work has been featured in major news outlets and traveled the world. He has worked with celebrities such as Tony Hawk, Jeff Bridges, and Lyle Lovett, among others. In 2017 John partnered with Delta to paint a Boeing 737 promoting the Rock-in-Rio concert. ...
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Aug. 31, 2022

Living the dream with author, former educator, and crime victim/survivor Paulette Buchanan

Send us a text I'm a former educator and a crime victim/survivor who now educates the public on how to cope with and even heal from aggressive stalking, death threats, cybercrimes, religious cults, and the weaponization of the courts by stalkers (including religious cult leaders). I've written my first book, Fighting for Justice: Religious Fraud, Mental Illness, and the Collapse of Law & Order, that details the origins and continuation of my four older brothers' abusive behavior, the failures of...
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Aug. 29, 2022

Living the dream with film maker and self published author Daniel Hess

Send us a text Daniel Hess A filmmaker and self published author in Baltimore, Maryland. Daniel has been working in the creative, corporate, and event spaces of video production since 2009. Many of his life experiences have gone into his first book, a collection of poetry called "Just a Boy Blaming Himself," in which he took an unfiltered look back at his life personally and professionally especially over the last five years. Daniel is currently working on obtaining his Masters Degree in Film S...
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Aug. 17, 2022

Living the dream with author and plant based nutrition expert Michael Dorfman

Send us a text Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1942, Michael Dorfman has been residing in Mexico for more than 40 years, including the last 6 in San Miguel de Allende and the previous 30 in Cancun. Because of his growing interest in Eastern philosophy, Michael decided to become a vegetarian in 1976. For health reasons, in 2008, Michael chose to make the change to a Whole Food Plant Based diet. What he has learned from his experiences and in-depth research on nutrition and specific lifestyle chang...
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Aug. 15, 2022

Living the dream with model/actor turned self-taught filmmaker Bo Roberts

Send us a text Indiana-born model/actor turned self-taught filmmaker Bo Roberts, was driven to filmmaking through his interest in psychology. On the heels of 17 short films, Roberts took the opportunity during 2021 to make a feature film, "The Great Awakening," which was acquired by Filmhub and is currently available on multiple streaming platforms, including tubiTV. From the pages of GQ, Cosmo, and Esquire, to the silver screen ("300: Rise of an Empire", "Mindy Project," etc.), Indian-born, ISU...
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Aug. 8, 2022

Living the dream with author, leadership expert, and ultra-endurance athlete Bryan Gillette

Send us a text Bryan Gillette is a former Silicon Valley human resource executive, founder of his own leadership consulting business, and amateur ultra-endurance athlete. He has ridden his bike across the United States and run 205 miles around Lake Tahoe. Bryan knows how to connect with both the business leader or the amateur athlete to help them reach their peak and achieve the impossible. The skills and behavior, as he learned, are the same. After interviewing 100 leaders on how they reach th...
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Aug. 5, 2022

Living the dream with success mentor and bestselling author Rebecca Whitman

Send us a text Rebecca Whitman is a Success Mentor, graduate with honors from Princeton University and author of international bestselling books, "Phenomenal Feminine Entrepreneurs," "Business, Life, Universe" and "How to Make a Six Figure Income Working Part Time." She was selected as Life Coach of the Year by International Association of Top Professionals. She hosts the top 5% globally ranked "Balanced, Beautiful, Abundant" podcast. Her philosophy divides life into 7 Pillars of / Abundance w...
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Aug. 3, 2022

Living the dream with author and celebrated people leadership strategist Merrylue Martin

Send us a text Dr. Merrylue Martin is a celebrated people leadership strategist with decades of successfully working with global leaders and business owners from all types and sizes of organizations, to make their employees feel uniquely respected, appreciated, fulfilled, and engaged. The recent release of her new book, The Big Quit Survival Guide, has received rave reviews and best seller status in Amazon’s Office Management category. As a Fortune 50 senior executive, educational administrator,...
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Aug. 1, 2022

living the dream with entertainment mogul Marlene Sharp

Send us a text Marlene Sharp is a creative and business-savvy entertainment multi-hyphenate who originally hails from New Orleans but is now a (San Fernando) Valley girl. Firmly ensconced in LA life, Marlene is top dawg at Pink Poodle Productions and Head of IP Strategy and Acquisitions for Rainshine Entertainment. Noteworthy clients and collaborators include BoredPanda.com, WeFixYourScript.com, ToonBo, Society Entertainment, Euramco Pictures, and The Center for Learning Unlimited/Brainstorm Pro...
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July 29, 2022

Living the dream with author and co-founder of Fight For A Better America Bill Kuhn

Send us a text Bill Kuhn is the co-founder of Fight for a Better America, an organization that invests in key battleground districts and states throughout the US, with the goal of either flipping them blue or maintaining a Democratic incumbent. Through his travels with the organization, he has made hundreds of contacts with folks in local civic and Democratic clubs throughout the country―primarily in California, Pennsylvania, New York, Florida, and New Jersey―and organized hundreds of volunteer...
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July 27, 2022

Living the dream with author and founder of the institute for social ecology Dan CHODORKOFF

Send us a text EXPERIENCE THE SOCIAL TURMOIL OF 1960S AMERICA IN THIS IMMERSIVE AND PROVOCATIVE WORK OF POLITICAL FICTION, BY ACCOMPLISHED AUTHOR, AND AWARD-WINNING ACTIVIST, DAN CHODORKOFF! SUGARING DOWN is the compelling and richly tapestried novel of passion and tragedy, by prestigious author and activist, Dan Chodorkoff. Now available from Fomite Press! SUGARING DOWN spins the harrowing tale of two young activists, David and Jill, as they struggle to build a new society on an abandoned far...
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July 25, 2022

Living the dream with founder and CEO of Osso Safe Sabrina osso

Send us a text Sabrina Osso is Founder and CEO of OSSO SAFE…Feel safe where you live, work, and play. She is a TEDx Speaker, Real Estate Agent, and Consultant on promoting safety and preventing violence in the workplace, schools, and in places of residence. Sabrina’s personal and professional experience with the subject allows her to bring a unique and holistic approach as a solution. She is also a professional dancer/teacher who uses her performance abilities to educate on the subject. As a rea...
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July 22, 2022

Living the dream with adult romance author Gwen Tolios

Send us a text Gwen Tolios Is an an asexual independent author, publishing short stories, middle grade novels, and soon new adult romance. In this episode Gwen discusses her new book, why she decided to go with self publishing, how her writings are different than other authors works, and she also talks about some of her favorite travel destinations. www.gwentolios.com
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July 13, 2022

Living the dream with sound therapist Mayara Souza

Send us a text Mayara grew up in Brazil and she had to overcome a very adverse and traumatic childhood. She has a history of physical, mental, emotional and sexual abuse that led her into an intense dependency on alcohol since her early years. Mayara finally moved to America in her mid twenties when she started her healing process that continues to evolve every day. Today, after a decade of healing work and extensive research on trauma and consciousness, she is a certified Sound Therapist and us...
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July 6, 2022

Living the dream with business man and podcast host Corey Nathan

Send us a text Corey Nathan was raised in an observant Jewish household attending an Orthodox synagogue. His family is mostly from Brooklyn, NY; but Corey grew up on the Jersey side - Bruce Springsteen country! In his late 20s, much to the family's chagrin, Corey became a Born-again Christian. Not long after this epiphany, however, the new believer began to find many of the prevailing socio-political positions of American Evangelicalism to be at odds with the very Scriptures that are supposed to...
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July 4, 2022

Living the dream with grief coach and suicide awareness expert Peggy Green

Send us a text Peggy's second book, Survive Your Child's Suicide; How to Move through Grief to Healing will be released in September, which is National Suicide Awareness Month. Suicide death of a child rocks a parent’s world to its inner core. Questions haunt you: Why did they do it? Why did not they come to me? Why did not I see it coming? How can I go on with my life when my child is gone? In front of you is a vast abyss. One side is your present situation of pain and suffering. The other, ho...
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June 22, 2022

Living the dream with dating and relationship coach Chungus Thang

Send us a text Chungus Thang, "The Healthy Dating Coach," is a 22-year-old dating & relationships coach that aspires to make a positive impact by teaching healthy dating in the modern age. On this episode Chungus and I discuss everything from what he feels makes him a credible dating coach, how his past relationships helps him as a dating coach, and his opinion on online dating.
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June 13, 2022

living the dream with endurance athlete and podcast host Christopher Russell

Send us a text Chris Russell is an entrepreneur, endurance athlete and creative who is the force behind the successful apocalyptic audio serial “After the Apocalypse”. Chris, (who’s nom de guerre is “Mad Dog”) has been creating podcast magic since podcasting became a thing. Looking for interesting, topical content for your show? Look no further than the impact of SciFi and apocalyptic story telling as a metaphor for our times!
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