How to Counter the Lies You Tell Yourself

Tina Yaeger is an author, podcast host, licensed counselor, life coach, and a speaker with a passion for encouragement.  

Tina teaches how to bust through common
lies women believe and how to counter falsehoods.  A self-image makeover helps women identify the issues which handicap them and how to recognize and refute 
negative self-talk.  She will help you 
unlock the secrets to mental strength and 
to recognize common habits that can be 
toxic.

Tina is 'wired' as an encourager and is passionate about helping others who struggle with low self-worth.  As a young teenager, 
she felt unlovable which led to an eating disorder that lasted into her college years.  

During her third year of college, still in the grip of the eating disorder, she was assaulted 
and has vivid memories of shuffling along the gutter, leading to death after this attack. 

In her interview she discusses:

• the key ways to identify a lie
• specific lies about femininity and significance
• how to counter falsehoods

Do You Want to Be the One Who Starts the Chain Reaction?

Darrick T. Miller Jr. is an author and motivational speaker who is reaching his generation -- black male and female millennials. His books are written with a two-fold purpose. First to inspire hope and faith to a generation of men and women who feel there is little hope for them. And, secondly, to anyone who wants to understand and relate with millennials.

No matter what your age or race, Darrick has tremendous insight and passion to help others. His message: DARE TO BE YOU! and Do NOT allow circumstances to change you. Each of us can benefit from Darrick's books and this interview.

Darrick's books are designed to guide and direct you as well as ignite your dreams despite any negative circumstances, age, or race. He discusses subjects that are taboo in many circles - but desperately need to be shared.

Darrick believes that each of us has a message that can make an impact. All we need to do is find our gifts and calling.

How Do You Deal with Accidental Death of Your Fiance

Natalie Jenkins is from a small town in Kentucky.  She has a bachelor's degree in foreign languages and enjoys writing.  A simple life that she planned to share with the love of her life.  She got engaged and 14 days later, her fiance was killed.  

Her story begins with his death.  Not only did she have to cope with her grief but his accidental death was covered up by the authorities because it was a policeman who killed him.  

No Matter How Bad Things Seem, You Can Overcome

Terry Tucker has had many challenging jobs during the course of his career including a SWAT Team hostage negotiator ….. but his greatest challenge was a personal one.  Terry’s story of overcoming this incredible challenge will encourage you on many levels.  Terry is an author, a motivational speaker and his blog, Motivational Check, has daily posts of inspiration.

During his time in law enforcement and over my years of battling cancer, Terry has seen many people die. He noticed that the people who died peacefully were the ones who were able to find their purpose and live it. Conversely, the people who begged for more time and fought their demise, where those who had never done much with their lives. In many cases, these people never even looked for their purpose.

Learning How to Stay Focused on the End Goal

Ken Rupert is an educator, a strategist, a life coach, a 2nd-degree Financial Black Belt and the author of The Financial Black Belt Academy’s Financial Self-Defense Training Manual as well as the Financial Self-Defense Training program.

As a first generation, self-made millionaire, Ken has built his wealth by practicing the financial strategies he developed and teaches.

His innovative financial wellness program is designed to empower others to succeed financially.

Ken always held onto the belief that things would work out. He uses what he has learned in helping people in his coaching practice by providing hope that anyone can overcome their financial struggles.

Learning how to stay focused on the end goal

Despite the noise and chaos of the current environment

Helps maintain a level of HOPE
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How to Tolerate Narcissism in a Partner

Dr. Diane Pomerantz is a clinical psychologist who has been in practice working with children, adolescents, and adults in the Baltimore, Maryland area for over 35 years.

She has done extensive work in the area of trauma and child abuse and research in the area of personality development of abused children.

She currently runs Healing Through Writing groups in her practice. She is a breast cancer survivor and has two grown children.

She and her shaggy dog, Rug, live amidst tall trees on the outskirts of Baltimore, Maryland.








Jacquelyn Mitchard, New York Times Best-Selling Author says "Diane Pomerantz's story of a punishing marriage may be an often-told tale, but she has a majestic talent for conjuring emotion and compelling the reader with an authentic and heartbreaking story."

How To Survive Extreme Trauma and 2 Heart Transplants

Christophe Lafontant was a healthy little boy who had a near death experience due to sudden complete heart failure and blockage at the age of six years old.  He has survived pacemaker implantation, TWO heart transplants, diabetes, dialysis treatment, a kidney transplant, a tracheostomy, and other life-altering procedures.

Christophe's autobiography, 1 Man, 3 Hearts, 9 Lives, is an inspiration to anyone who may be facing a nightmare of their own.  It is also a great read with all 5-star reviews.

Learning How to Rewire the Autistic Brain

  
Anita Lesko was a guest speaker at the United Nations Headquarters in NYC for World Autism Awareness Day.  Anita Lesko is an award-winning author and speaker.  She has a Master's of Science degree in nurse anesthesia specializing in neurosurgery, organ transplants, trauma/burns, and joint replacement surgery for the past three decades.    

She is on the panel of the Autism Spectum with the Autism Society of America.  She is a certified life coach specializing in the Autism Life Skills Coaching, Intgrative Health and Wellness Coaching and Halth Care Professional Coaching, and Executive/Corporate Coaching.








Using visualization since childhood, Anita Lesko re-wired her autistic brain which enabled her to fit into the mainstream with a successful career, happy marriage, and fulfilling life.  She is about to change the lives of millions on the autism spectrum.  

Determine That It Does Not Need to Be Over!

Lawrence Berger is a self-made entrepreneur who has survived eight car accidents and seven suicide attempts.  

Despite the trauma, Lawrence has been able to change his focus and his life.  He is a motivational speaker, author of eight books, five feature-length movies, two 'shorts,' wrote (and sold) a TV pilot.  He went from severely depressed to being a mentor, speaker, author, playwright, and nationally renowned poet.

He has taught multiple educational seminars sharing his secrets from a thirty-year sales career. Lawrence's self-help guide is used as a college text and he has also written nine poetry books.


If you know anyone who has struggled with depression, they need to hear Larry's story.  

Lawrence is a survivor!  Period! 

Determination Can Make You Unstoppable

Matt Rifenberg has a remarkable story of resilience, tenacity, and success. When
Cathy Goguen, an award-winning playwright heard his story she knew it would make a
great play. Together they produced that play with an incredible message.
Unstoppable by Design.

Matt has been homeless, friendless, hungry, married to someone addicted to drugs, a
clueless father trying to raise his son, and had a brain tumor. He was terrified of what might
happen as a penniless, unemployed man without direction.

Currently, Matt is employed by the government engineering the destruction of chemical
weapons -- well-respected and successful in that community.

How to Never Quit Climbing to Reach What Appears as Unattainable

Gary Sinclair is an author of three books, leadership coach, musician, and speaker.  With a master's degree in counseling, he provides wisdom, inspiration and practical help to overcome insurmountable mountains.  He has climbed nine 14,000-foot mountains but overcame even higher ones in his personal life.

Most people face hopeless situations of some degree in their lives - financial, grief and loss, relationship struggles, work issues, etc.  Often these summits seem impossible to reach but Gary applies the same principles to overcoming these problems with actual mountain climbing.  His insight is noteworthy.

His wife was faced with a three-stage cancer diagnosis and they were able to overcome that life-threatening experience and pass on their wisdom to us.  He explores perseverance, pushing through weariness, and the importance of taking one step at a time.

Important life lessons related to mountain climbing:

Hold On to the Good and Never Let Go

Lisa Kohn is the author of To The Moon and Back which is a term often associated with love.  But for Lisa, it had a much deeper meaning.  Lisa grew up in the East Village of New York City in the 1970s and in the Unification Church (the Moonies). 

Lisa was raised in two conflicting worlds. Her mother's world was the fanatical, puritanical cult of the Moonies.  Her father's world was based on sex and drugs in the East Village of New York City.

In her interview, she shares how she escaped the lifestyle that almost destroyed her. She was anorexic, addicted to cocaine and engaged to an alcoholic. Today she has a successful leadership consulting and coaching practice and is blessed with a happy marriage of over twenty years and two amazing children.

Listen as she shares her amazing transformation, what she learned, and how she offers hope to anyone struggling with self-destruction and esteem issues. 


Most of us know someone who has been swept into a world of addiction or poor choices which can be destructive.  You don't want to miss hearing Lisa's story of how she escaped what she calls "brain pickling" instead of brainwashing:

How to Stay Calm Through a Life-Threatening Diagnosis

Crystal Duffy is an author, public speaker, teacher, parent advisor in the NICU and Mom to three daughters including a set of identical twins. Her high-risk pregnancy with her twin girls incited her writing career.

After surviving a two-month bed-rest extended NICU stay, high-risk twin pregnancy, and two-time near-death experience, Crystal was emotionally, physically, and spiritually transformed by her medical trauma. She wanted to share her “Emotional Tale of Empowerment” and inspire other families navigating through a similar journey with a message of strength, encouragement, and hope.

She has connected with thousands of families with her patient advocacy work and on her social media handles through her writing. Her essays on parenting have been featured in Woman’s World Magazine, Brain Child Magazine, and Twiniversity where she is a senior staff writer and teacher. She is thrilled for the launch of her forthcoming book Twin to Twin. 

How to Find Love on Craigslist

How does a 62-year-old woman who's never been married find happiness with a two-time widower seeking his third wife on . . . Craigslist!? Does she throw caution to the wind and relinquish her freedom, or should she take a crash course in compromises?

B. Lynn Goodwin owns Writer Advice, www.writeradvice.com. Her memoir, Never Too Late: From Wannabe to Wife at 62 was released in December.  It was a National Indie Excellence Award Winner and a two-category finalist at Next Generation Indie Book Awards. In addition, she has written You Want Me to Do WHAT? Journaling for Caregivers and Talent, which was short-listed for a Literary Light box Award, won a bronze medal in the Moonbeam Children’s Book Awards and was a finalist for a Sarton Women’s Book Award.

You Can Overcome Your Past and Realize Your Dreams

Orly Amor is an internationally known speaker, business coach for public speakers, Networking Expert and author of several books. A visionary and a connector, Orly is passionate about helping people connect and build strategic alliances and their sphere of influence.










Orly Amor always enjoyed speaking and helping people change their 
lives and impact their circle of influence no matter where they are.  In property management for 25 years, she quickly established herself as a Subject
Matter Expert; publishing two books.  But she was not satisfied with the impact
she was making and wanted to increase it.


In 2006, Orly was asked to share at a woman's shelter but she declined.  They insisted and she relentlessly agreed.  It was there she met a woman who wanted to end her life but after hearing Orly's message she wanted to change her life and live it to the fullest.  This is the impact that Orly wanted to make for people.

Do Mistakes of Your Past Define Your Present?

Thad Cummings went from having a family,  a seven figure net worth, multiple businesses and a non-profit to being broke, family-less and facing death.  As he lie staring up at a ceiling in an empty apartment with a cell-phone that was now silent, he wondered where it all went wrong.

In his interview, Thad answers questions like:

What to do when the phone goes silent? 

What is more important -- proving you are right or the other person is wrong?

What does 'redefining enough' mean?

How do you measure success?

IF YOU LET THE PAIN AND MISTAKES OF YOUR PAST DEFINE YOUR PRESENT....

YOU WILL NEVER HAVE A FUTURE

You Can Overcome the Scars of Bullying

Joyce Isaacson is an active blogger, author, and worked for the Chicago Tribune Editorial Department for ten years.  Her novel, "Wish You Were Here, Badfinger....A Rock Fantasy" has opened up many opportunities to help people deal with loss of a friend or loved one.

From a very young age, Joyce suffered extreme abuse through bullying by both classmates and teachers.  She dislocated her hip from tripping over a stuffed toy and missed a lot of school.  This led to a pattern of abuse and betrayal that followed her well into her adult years.  

You will enjoy her interview sharing her own story and her quirky novel:

You Can Overcome - Cancer Survivor-ship Journey

Glen and Debbie Kirkpatrick's story shows both sides of survivorship.  When someone is battling cancer they are not alone in that journey.  Their partner suffers as well. 

Glen and Debbie share the heart-wrenching story and ultimate victory over this terrible disease.  Glen is a three-time, 31-year cancer survivor living with late effects of radiation and chemotherapy.  He shares how to find joy, how to persevere and the significance of living in the moment.  

Do You Want to Have a Solid Financial Future?

Kenneth Ameduri has had a passion for truth from an early age. Finding trends and anticipating growth sectors has been his primary focus since he was in high school. After noticing the cracks in the underlined financial system, he became a proactive investor purchasing investments that would hedge his portfolio against inflation. This led him to invest in real estate, precious metals, stocks, and cryptocurrency establishing a personal multimillion dollar portfolio prior to turning 30 years old.

What Does This Mean For You?

How Could One of the Biggest Traumas in Your Life Bring You the Greatest Joy?

Linda Evans Shepherd is an author of over 30 books.  She is President of Right to the Heart ministries and CEO of the Advanced Writers and Speakers Association (AWSA).  Her prayer books have sold over a quarter-of-a-million copies and often achieve the number one position on Amazon.

Linda is an internationally recognized speaker and the publisher of Leading Hearts Magazine, and AriseDaily, a daily e-devotional written by the members of AWSA.

Many times the people who we regard as leaders and seem to have it all 'together' are actually going through intense pain.  The difference is how we handle these setbacks.  Linda is no exception.  

Listen to her heart-wrenching story about her baby girl who was in a near-fatal car crash and how that event changed her life.  Out of that experience, Linda found true joy.  

How Important is Having the Ideal Body to You?

Derek Wahler took his online weight loss business from $0 to over $600,000 in less than four years because his program WORKS.  During the course of starting this business, he was rushed to the ER and had to have emergency bowel and intestine surgery. 

After fighting it for six hours and nearly passing out on his bathroom floor, he was rushed to the emergency room. There he had a six-hour emergency surgery because his colon had flipped in his body and crushed all the organs in its path. He was in the hospital for ten days with his stomach stapled together, halfway across the country from his wife, who was seven months pregnant at the time. And, this all came a few months after he quit his job to run his business full time. 

How To Fight an Emotional Battle

Kathy Docket is an author who has written extensively on the subjects of  depression and Schizophrenia.  Fighting these battles and winning is the message Kathy wants to share with anyone who may suffer from the same debilitating form of anxiety that can govern your life and render you hopeless.













When her mom died of cancer, it affected Kathy to the point that it triggered Schizophrenia and serious depression.  She was hospitalized many times and eventually had a nervous breakdown.  

We were created for a higher purpose.  We are NOT a mistake.  Letting others label us causes our thinking to become negative.

Your Obstacles Do NOT Define Your Outcome!

Your public image can be quite different than your reality

For over 10 years Allison Graham has shown professionals how to grow their top line revenue and build profitable relationships.  Her bestselling book, From Business Cards to Business Relationships: Profitable Networking & Personal Branding Made Easy is the foundation for her original work. 

She’s been featured as an authority on sales and networking in the media and has worked with some of North America’s most influential brands. Each week, she is invited to share the Business Lessons from the Big Business Headlines on Global News 980 CFPL.

Behind the Scenes

Is it Possible to Live Your Dream Life?

You could be enjoying this life

Adelina Tancioco is a certified coach and inspirational speaker who specializes in supporting women to stop living a life on auto-pilot and create richer and more fulfilling lives.






Adelina would love to help you to live that life through a 4-Step System she offers:

What To Do When Jane Knows Dick About Dating

Laura Wellington is an award-winning children's television creator, a successful technology-media entrepreneur, an author of the Four-Star Diet and her latest release What to Do When Jane Knows Dick About Dating and a full-time mom to five children.

Laura was widowed at 35 years old and had to pick up the pieces, move forward and stay strong for her five children while managing her business. 

Since then she has dedicated herself to making the world a better place for ALL -- in ways that now include spearheading THREAD MB. 

When Laura wanted to get back into the dating scene, she realized how things had changed.  This birthed her latest book What to Do When Jane Knows Dick About Dating.

Do You Struggle Emotionally? You are Not Alone

With suicide being the leading cause of death in men under 50 and 1 in 5 people suffering from a mental health problem, Rick Sharpe is a man on a mission; to raise awareness about emotional struggle and to help others suffering emotionally. 

Rick wants to demonstrate to others that it is possible to heal from failed relationships and transform your own life in the process.

After a failed relationship, he realized much later in life that he needed to search through his own soul in order to discover why he kept ending up in the same
place. He began to understand his fear of vulnerability and he realized that it was a time in his life where he needed to grow and keep growing. 

There are no guarantees in life but it should not stop us from giving all we have to that which matters. 

Never give up hope because all things

 do pass and we all have choices

Do You Know How to Listen to Your Body and Shift Into High Gear?

Tammy Price is the author of Shifting Into High Gear:  A Guide to Listeing to Your Body  which became a BEST seller within ONE DAY of its release.  Tammy is co-founder of Shifting Into High Gear, a multifaceted company deeply rooted in the belief that we have all that we need within to be whole, healthy and happy people.

Tammy is the co-creator of the program Heels to Healer (H2H) A Journey to Wholeness, The Practical Solutions Guide for Getting Back Into Balance. 

Tammy is a cancer survivor, testament and advocate to the benefits of cultivating a deep "inner adventure' practice.  She is living and loving life by the motto

Is Your Life Defined by a Past Transgression?

Tezlyn Reardon is the author of Forty Years of Practice:  Finding Purpose in Pain.  She has a degree in Sports Management and currently works in marketing analytics.

Divorce, ADHD, cancer, knee replacement, depression, rock bottom -- these words often make people run for the hills.  But it was through her pain and experiences that Tezlyn gained strength, courage, wisdom and the passion to help others who may have experienced similar trauma.

Allow Tezlyn to use her expertise to help you apply for grants, write a business plan, resume, or another document which are often difficult to compose with the desired impact.  

Has Your Out-of-Control Anger Ever Caused You to Abuse a Toddler?

Kathy Collard Miller is an author, counselor and international speaker, Kathy has appeared on many TV programs, travels as a speaker in eight countries and across the United States.  She is a founding member of AWSA (Advanced Writers and Speakers Association).

Kathy has published over 50 books but this didn't happen until she was able to pull herself out of a destructive pit as a child abuser.  She abused her toddler both physically and verbally.  The rage she dealt with as a young mom caused her to choke her child and almost kill her.  When she realized what she had done and knew she would be capable of doing it again, she decided to use her husband's service revolver to end her own life.  She shares her story in her new book, No More Anger, Hope for an Out-of-Control Mom.

Kathy's interview is no-holds-barred.  She shares her pain as a child abuser and the difficulty to keep it secret.  Listen to her story as she explains the steps she took to turn her life around.

Do You Know the Pain of Losing a Child?

Fran Caffey Sandin is an author of two books sharing her own incredible story and those of many others who have gone through a severe trauma but found the strength to get through.  

She has also written articles for magazines including Focus on the Family, Decision, Home Life, Virtue. In addition to her two books, she co-authored the best-seller, Courage for
the Chicken-Hearted and its sequel Eggstra Courage for the Chicken-Hearted. 

Fran knows the heartbreak of losing your child.  Not only did she say goodbye to her little Jeffrey, but to an older son, Steve, as well.  Steve had a Master of Physical Therapy degree yet died at the age of 43 after struggling with cystic fibrosis for 14 years and kidney failure for 7 years.