How to be an Overcomer No Matter What the Diagnosis or State of Mind

Blind since birth, Heather Hutchinson, a once-spirited kid with big dreams now finds herself in a locked psychiatric facility—a wounded young woman in the midst of a global pandemic.

Heather Hutchison is the author of Holding On by Letting Go: A Memoir, and an award-winning singer/songwriter with three albums released to date. Blind since birth and having struggled with mental illness from a young age, she is passionate about educating people on disability and mental health through her music and writing. An avid traveler, Heather has spent time living and teaching English in Latin America.

During her interview, she shares how anyone can rise above prejudice and disabilities. You will love her story.

This memoir spans decades and continents to tell a story of the beautiful similarities that make us all human. From meeting unlikely allies in the dirty streets of some of Latin America’s most impoverished neighborhoods to discovering difficult truths about discrimination in her home country of Canada, Heather Hutchison offers poignant insight into mental health awareness, and what it means to strive for an ordinary life when you are often treated as anything but ordinary.

Heartbreakingly honest and strikingly witty, Holding On by Letting Go is the unforgettable true story of one woman’s journey from despair to acceptance and hope. Ultimately, it is a portrayal of the light that can be found in the darkest of times.

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Teen Suicide: If You Wait for Signs of a Problem - You May Be Too Late

Blindsided by her 14-year-old daughter’s suicide attempt in 1995, Jackie entered a world of depression, addiction, medical mysteries, and deadly silences. 

TEDx speaker, Radio Show Host, International Best-selling Author, Mindset Magician, co-founder, and Director of the Teen Suicide Prevention Society, Jackie Simmons is best known for her mission to “Make teen suicide a thing of the past.” 

The journey into the world of mental health services and cultural taboos left Jackie feeling lost and alone. 

“I’m fine” on the outside, Jackie hid her deep, psychic wounds behind a façade of frantic entrepreneurial activity.

Then on August 3, 2019, Jackie’s now 37-year-old daughter, broke the silence. Jackie calls August 3, the day her “purpose tapped her on the shoulder.” 

For Jackie Simmons, the leap from “Sales Trainer” and “Stress Management Consultant” to “Emotional Resilience Training” and “Mindset Mastery” was short in linear time and long in unwinding the limiting beliefs that held her back and kept her playing small. 

Along the way, Jackie explored many dead ends and followed several false prophets. Jackie also worked with amazing creators of transformative training and technologies. 

During her interview, she shares her story but more importantly, what you can do to help stop the pandemic of teen suicide.

The beginnings of Jackie’s journey to the TEDx stage were captured in the eBook Why Not Workbook: Breaking the Silence on Teen Suicide.

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Be prepared, this book will wrap you up in a blanket of emotions.

This book is not for you to read . . . this book is for you to share . . .

In the next 24 hours, more than 3,000 American teens will attempt to take their own lives. 

This means that every day, over 6,000 parents start to live the guilt nightmare that accompanies a suicide attempt. This means that every day, over 20,000 grandparents, aunts, uncles, brothers, and sisters get sucked into the guilt nightmare. This means that every day, 100s of 1,000s of classmates, teachers, boyfriends, girlfriends, and neighbors also get sucked into the guilt nightmare. All probably just as blind-sided by it as we were. Inside this book, you'll find stories of heartache and stories of triumph. These stories are real and raw. We know that when it comes to suicide, silence is deadly, so each story is designed to help you break the silence and start a conversation. 

From this humble book, a movement and a non-profit were born. Please share this book. Talk about it, share your stories, and share a hug. You can learn more ways to stop teen suicide by watching: "Have 'The Talk' to Stop Teen Suicide" on the TEDx YouTube channel, at the Teen Suicide Prevention Society, and at The Suicide Prevention Show summit. 

Learn more, break the silence, and have the talk. 

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Ever feel like you and your business are invisible?
 
Are you tired of being a secret?
 
You're not alone. And you're in luck. Sales have never been easier. Sales have never been more fun, and there are so many ways to "do" sales right time freedom, that there's only one way to do it wrong . . . don't do it at all.
 
If you're making all the money you want, have the time and freedom you crave, and the impact you desire, this book is not for you.
 
If, on the other hand, you're struggling to find qualified prospects, you're making offers before they're ready to buy, or you're hiding behind getting your website finished, this book is for you.
 
In this book, Jackie Simmons brings you the leading-edge thinking drives success around sales, mindset, money, and the neuroscience that drives success.

Jump right in, it's time for you to know how to own your value, get consistent well-paying clients, and sell with confidence and ease.

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Please join Jackie on her mission to make teen suicide a thing of the past. You may never know whose life you’ll save. 

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“The Talks That Save Lives: How to Stop Negative Thinking and Self-Sabotage”

The ongoing program that guides you every step of the way on your journey to “suicide-proof” your loved ones.

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Do You Know How to Allow Your Past to Help, Rather than Hurt You?

Have you felt hopeless? Or that your life was beyond your control? Have you dealt with the emotions surrounding those feelings and wondered if things would ever be different?

Do you want to know how to overcome traumas in life that seem overwhelming and realize what you were created to become? 

Kimberly Anne Bell holds a degree in human growth and development/psychology and one in theology. Her story is a perfect example of allowing your past to help, rather than hurt, you.  Kimberly never gave up hope even in the direst circumstances. 

The main factor that helped Kimberly overcome trauma in her life was to accept her past and realize she was created unique, wonderfully made, with flaws, feelings, and emotions, and that I was a gift from above. Just as important I had to accept that I was created to be loved, have abundant life, and achieve God's purpose to be blessed and to be a blessing to others. 

During her interview, she shares her physical, mental, and, emotional struggles as well as sexual abuse and childhood abandonment, PTSD and healing from trauma.

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The Epitome of Kimmy: Accept and Embrace it All, is an eye-opening memoir that takes you beneath the surface into some of the harshest realities of a child’s life. It is the unfiltered true story of Kimberly Anne Bell, who is faced with a life of abandonment, and sexual and physical abuse from a young age. As you read on, you will sense the trauma and silent pain as well as the divine intervention in her life that allowed her to overcome and be who she is today.

You will be inspired by how life became more precious to live and experience after Kimmy found love, peace, and acceptance within her soul. It will move you to also find resilience, embrace your destiny and overcome all adversity. It is about accepting that which is beyond your control because there is a long road ahead and you still have so much more to look forward to in life.

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Do You Dare Step Out of Your Career Comfort Zone?

Cori Wamsley, CDO of Aurora Corialis Publishing, can help you change your career path and become the writer you want to be. 

Cori felt trapped in a career that was not using her talents or skills. Essentially, she was 'putting in the time' with little reward for herself. 

Cori Wamsley works with business owners who have a transformational story to share. She helps them quickly and easily write and publish a book for their brand that helps them create a legacy and be seen as an expert. 

As a bestselling author, Cori understands the frustration that comes from not knowing how to write or publish your first book. She overcame those challenges and wrote five novels, two children's books, and one nonfiction book as well as contributing to anthologies. 

Cori will work with YOU to help you unleash your own powerful story. 

In Cori's interview, she will show you how to break away from the mundane, leave your comfort zone, and create what you always wanted to do. She will show you how to be seen as an expert while building a relationship with the reader that leads to coaching and other business goals.

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The SPARK Method: How to Write a Book for Your Business Fast details every step of the writing process, from planning through writing through figuring out the title and cover. Cori makes a nebulous process incredibly easy for anyone to implement. Even if you have tons of ideas. Even if you lack direction. 

The SPARK Method can help you get through the writing process so you, too, can finally have a book to represent you, your ideas, your brand, and your story so you can make a bigger impact than ever before!

 

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Living Kindly isn’t just a feel-good read for those who love motivational and positive stories. It’s an extension of Kindleigh and Leigh M. Clark’s mission, as well as the missions of multiple kindness entrepreneurs, nonprofit founders, and others who strive to make the world a nicer place, one act of kindness at a time.

In this book, you’ll find stories of kindness to ourselves, to those we love, and to strangers—forming a strong web of kindness that will inspire you to take steps, too, to bring more kindness to our world.

50% of the proceeds go to Kindleigh, allowing for even more acts to be performed worldwide! Cori is a contributing author to this work.

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1.6 Seconds. That's How Long It Takes to Fall Two Stories

1.6 seconds. That's how long it takes to fall two stories. That's how long it takes for life to change

MICHAEL MURPHY is a motivational speaker, paralyzed athlete, and writer. His journey began in April 2007 when he fell off a roof in college, shattered his spine, and was paralyzed. He was 21.

Michael had to adapt to life in a wheelchair over a long rehab process to find his “new normal,” regain his independence, and return to school.

Despite his accident, Michael remained the competitive athlete that led him to play both football and baseball in college.

 

In 2008 he found a new passion when he was introduced to hand-cycling and adaptive sports. His first race was The Marine Corps Marathon that year after he teamed up with The Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation to raise money for spinal cord research. Michael has since helped to raise more than $50,000 for a cure.

Today, Michael is a 12-time marathoner with Top 5 finishes in New York and Boston. He was also featured on NBC after completing two Tough Mudder competitions in 2012 and 2013 with the help of his teammates and an off-road handcycle.

Michael's interview is one you will want to listen to more than one time. He offers insight and motivation to live your life to the fullest - no matter what cards you have been dealt. He explains Post Traumatic Growth (PTG) which is positive change experienced as a result of the struggle with a major life crisis of traumatic events. 

Recently, Michael Murphy was featured in the documentary, "Snow to Sand" as the lone hand cyclist riding with a team of 15 strangers from Denver to LA in 2016. Their goal was to raise money for people suffering from paralysis by embarking on a 1,300-mile cross-country bike ride that pushes them past their limits and beyond what any of them thought they could achieve as individuals.

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He now trains with the Competition Team at the National Sports Center for the Disabled (NSCD) in Winter Park, CO, with every intention to make the US Ski Team…and go to the Paralympics. 

 

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In the spring of 2007, college junior Michael Murphy has it all: a stellar academic record, a vibrant social life, a coveted internship planned for the summer, and a dream to eventually serve as a Marine. But in just 1.6 seconds, the course of his life is irreversibly altered when he falls off a roof. After learning that he would never walk again, Michael realizes that he must start life over sitting down. 

The first in a series of three memoirs, WHEN I FELL: How I Rerouted My Life and Found Strength in a Severed Spine is Michael’s story of how he used this traumatizing incident to reframe his thoughts, learn to lean on friends and family, and to hopefully become a pillar of strength and hope for others.

Weaving the stories of his background and upbringing with the aftermath of his accident, readers are initially drawn in by the calamitous event, but then get to intimately know, and become invested in, Michael Murphy as a person. 

But throughout WHEN I FELL, Michael doesn’t sugarcoat the challenges he faces. We feel his frustration as seemingly small tasks, like getting from his bed into a wheelchair, require days of therapy and practice. We feel his panic as mind-numbing pain causes him to hallucinate in the hospital. But ultimately, Michael doesn’t just survive, he thrives as he learns to ask for and accept help from those closest to him, and readers will find themselves cheering for him as he dives headfirst into recovery and begins to regain his independence.

The fall may have robbed Michael of his ability to walk, but it couldn’t take away his love of athletics and competitive spirit. Using this passion to fuel his recovery, Michael’s new dream is still to serve his country, but this time as a Paralympian as a Para Alpine Skier (or sit skier.) Guided by his strong faith, the unwavering support of family and friends, and a life lesson from a Navy SEAL, Michael assures us it’s okay not to be okay, encourages us to “Never Never Never Give Up,” and gives us a Para-Alpine intimate insight into the world of people with disabilities. 

The scripture that has kept Michael going forward and has been tattooed on his arm to always have in view: 

"But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint" Isaiah 40:31

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How Does Music Help Us Heal and Help Reclaim our Life Purpose?

Follow your passion .....If you don't you will always wish you had!

Cymber Quinn grew up in a deeply abusive family environment. There was no escaping what was happening. She turned to music and beauty as a way of coping - just as many children and adults are doing today - to gain purpose and hope. 

Cymber is a transformational music coach, specializing in harp, piano, and voice. She weaves world, classical, jazz, and nature into soundscapes of inner peace. Fifteen years ago she left the corporate world when an illness prevented her to continue and then returned to her first love - music and the harp. 

Cymber Lily Quinn is the creator of The Purpose Cafe Coaching masterclass, The Ultimate Life Purpose Roadmap, which provides a straightforward blueprint for women in their 40s and beyond. 

Cymber hosts The Purpose Cafe podcast, where she interviews women who are already living their life purpose. Click HERE for a FREE 30-minute laser coaching session to help you start on your Three Steps to Reclaiming Your Life Purpose. 

Cymber is an award-winning professional harpist and singer featured on National Public Radio and Hawaii Public Radio. The Music Place in California named her a master teacher of music and is a Level 111 practitioner of Somatic Voicework.

She teaches in her online studio, Rosalani Music, and has recorded three CDs. She won five Big Island Hawaii Music Awards as well as a Music Achiever by the National League of American Pen Women. 

Connect with Cymber at Purpose Cafe Coaching and Podcast created to answer these questions:

• How do I find my purpose?
• How do I make a present-day version of that purpose?
• How do I share it with others?

During her interview, Cymber shares her story as well as tips on how to have a careful application of intentional practice until you do it without thinking about it!

Cymber's upcoming class The Ultimate Life Purpose Roadmap, is a three-week course with step-by-step instructions navigating feeling lost, and creating your own roadmap for your life purpose. Click here

The Purpose Cafe classes, workshops, and one-on-one coaching is for professional women in their 40s and up who are tired of feeling lost and overwhelmed when looking for their life purpose. 

Do you want to feel free and excited about the prospect of reclaiming your life purpose after years of giving to your family or career?

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Do You Know How to Get Out of an Abusive Situation Safely?

Kelly J. Stigliano grew up in a quiet Amish town in Ohio in the 1970s and was always searching for excitement. A handsome young musician, home from the U.S. Navy, shared his drugs, music, and experiences beyond her naivete. How could she have known that behind this charming facade hid a misogynist, eager to take control of her life?

Kelly progressed from being a rebellious teenager to the position of an abused spouse. Having been hit in the head and told she was worthless had taken a toll and she felt helpless and hopeless.  

Kelly J. Stigliano is an author, speaker, and survivor of abuse whose mission is to help women who are in an abusive domestic situation, leave safely without harming anyone in their family.  She is also a volunteer for the First Coast Women's Services, a pregnancy resource center. 

In Kelly's interview, she discusses how women find themselves in domestic abuse situations, how it's not as easy to leave as one might think, and how with God it is possible to leave safely without harming anyone. 

When I asked Kelly what motivates her to help women, she responded:

"I had always seen my past as a string of stupid, embarrassing mistakes to be kept to myself. One day in 1986, I stood in the church foyer comforting a mother whose teenage daughter only communicated in anger, threatened to run away, and threatened to kill herself. In obedience to what I felt the Lord told me, I opened the door to my past a tad, sharing a tiny bit of my tumultuous teen years. Having me, the Christian school principal’s wife and mother of two elementary kids, share that one sliver of fact literally made her contact lens pop out of her eye! I think that was a good thing. She hugged me and thanked me for giving her and her husband hope. I’ve been sharing my story in various forms since then."

Kelly's stories have been published in magazines, e-zines, and thirteen anthologies including three Chicken Soup for the Soul editions. Her memoir, Praying for Murder, Receiving Mercy: From At-Risk to At Peace; My Journey from Fear to Freedom has touched lives across the globe. 

Having been hit in the head and told she was worthless took a toll on Kelly and made her feel helpless and hopeless. During her interview, she shares that no matter what type of abusive situation you find yourself in, you can change your circumstances once and for all.

Kelly's memoir tells her full story and one you will want to share with anyone who may be in an abusive situation. More than just a story it will help anyone to learn to identify at-risk relationships, discover ways to help single mothers, and see how forgiveness can change lives.

Praying for Murder, Receiving Mercy: From At-Risk to At Peace; My Journey from Fear to Freedom has epoch song references, fun 1970s dialogue, supernatural events, and relatable circumstances. Praying for Murder, Receiving Mercy is relevant, real, and right. 

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Have You Wondered What Was Missing in Your Life?

Have you wondered what was missing in your life?  

Jenny Toh was a qualified lawyer in the UK, Singapore, and Malaysia for almost three decades who worked as a litigator, a corporate attorney, and a derivatives legal counsel. On her personal front, she has a supportive husband and three children.

Yet, there was an inner yearning for something more. She felt that she was not living life to its fullest potential. 

During Jenny's interview, she shares how she switched careers to fulfill her full potential and will coach you on how to do the same.

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Jenny is an International Coaching Federation Associate Certified Coach and runs her life coaching practice, River Life Coaching Pte. Ltd. She has coached many professionals in the legal industry, banking, and finance, energy sectors, and entrepreneurs on concerns such as work-life balance and integration matters, career transition, time management, and dealing with stress and negative emotions. 

Jenny Toh also volunteers at the pro bono coaching initiatives organized by ICF Singapore and is one of the facilitators for the ICF Singapore Peer Coaching Community of Practice. 

Additionally, she is a Christian mentor in GBN Marketplace Ministry and an active global mentor in The Mentor Ministry, an online mentoring platform.

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Jenny's website and her coaching process draw from the analogy of a river where the river source symbolizes your values and the main river is your life's direction. Your river is a reflection of the decisions that you make in your life. 

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At the end of your coaching journey with Jenny, you will gain in-depth awareness and clarity of your values and beliefs. With this, you will begin to align your life goals with your values. You will feel inspired to start living a purposeful life, positively influencing those around you.

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