What is the Best Way to Maximize Your Potential and Change Your Mindset?

At two years old, Alan Lazarus lost his father in a car accident. Twenty-four years later Alan was in a near-fatal car accident and questioned his life choices as he reached an all-time low.

Through his search, he found the answers he needed and turned them into helping multitudes of people find meaning and purpose. Alan saw a scary pattern in the world. He worked in industrial automation as an outside sales engineer and it scared him. 

He recognized that due to automation, the jobs available to the less educated population were getting exponentially less available as technology continued to innovate, improve, and proliferate exponentially.

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Alan used to sell equipment that took away jobs, which was going to happen with or without him. But he realized that if we are not a part of the solution, we are a part of the problem.

Alan's mission is to help others design fulfilling lives, maximize their unique potential, and build aligned businesses they love on their own terms. 

Now he helps to empower people to have a bigger, better, and brighter future through the power of self-education and holistic self-improvement, and to help people create their own jobs. 

Alan has a powerful combination of technical expertise and business acumen specializing in peak performance, productivity, organizational design, and individual, team, and business optimization.  He leads a global team at Next Level University, has given hundreds of trainings worldwide, and completed thousands of one-on-one coaching calls with clients.

Alan would be honored to help YOU get to the next level of your life, love, health, and wealth.

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God Knows How to Get Out of You What He Put in You

The year 2018 marked a pivotal year in Steven Foster's life amid despair and loss. He watched as his marriage dissolved, his thriving church slipped through his fingers, and a promising book deal crumbled before his eyes.  

Steven was at rock bottom teetering on the edge of giving up entirely. Yet, in that dark hour a word pierced through the chaos, "You're right on schedule!"

He had walked through three years of numbness and felt both helpless and hopeless. He could not understand why this was happening. Then he realized it was not happening to him but FOR him. As a result, he has emerged stronger and wiser with a passion to help you experience the same.

Steven is a devoted father, coach, author, and pastor from Maryland. Despite encountering a plethora of obstacles, he managed to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and Education from Morgan State University. He founded two companies B3 Community and Your Next Step.

In his interview, he shares how to overcome fear, failure, and self-doubt. He shows us how to make our 'mess' a life-changing message.

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You're Right on Schedule: Overcoming Failure, Eliminating Fear, and Achieving Your Entrepreneurial Dreams

Are you a Christian entrepreneur feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or afraid that you've missed God's timing for your success? Discover how you're exactly where you need to be for a breakthrough!

In this guide, you'll learn how to:

● Turn Setbacks into Setups: See how your failures are part of God's plan for your ultimate success.
● Conquer Fear with Faith: Strengthen your faith to overcome fear and uncertainty in your entrepreneurial journey.
● Align with God’s Calling: Ensure your business goals are in harmony with God's purpose for your life.
● Transform Obstacles into Opportunities: Recognize challenges as divine opportunities for growth and innovation.

What you’ll gain:

● A Faith-Fueled Mindset: Develop a mindset that embraces challenges and sees them as stepping stones to success.
● Practical Strategies for Success: Apply proven strategies that align with biblical wisdom to build a thriving, God-honoring business.
● Inspiration from Real Stories: Be inspired by Steven Foster’s personal experiences and the powerful lessons he’s learned on his own entrepreneurial journey.
● And much, much, more!

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Don't let fear and doubt hold you back. Unleash the entrepreneurial potential God has placed within you. Get your copy of "You're Right on Schedule" today and step confidently into the success He has prepared for you!

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How You Can Misuse Anything Externally to Fill a Void Internally

After more than a decade on a merry-go-round, nine long-term treatment visits wondering if he would ever get it right, Bill Nielsen realized that we can misuse anything externally to fill a void internally. Drugs and alcohol are merely symptoms.  

"No more Band-aids on bullet wounds." This was a statement made by today’s guest, Bill Nielsen. He will share his years of experience as a high-functioning and high-performing sales representative while using substances to cope with stress.

 

His journey has taken him from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the valley. 

Bill Nielsen, the founder of nascent24, is a Recovery and Life Coach who supports executives and professionals who struggle with substance misuse to find freedom from dependency without having to leave their jobs, homes, or families.

He combines his lived experiences with his knowledge, training, and certification as a CRSW (Certified Recovery Support Worker) to walk his clients through his proven three-step process. It is designed to get to the root cause of unhealthy behaviors and sets its clients up for a healthy and successful future.

In addition to 1:1 coaching, Bill is available for sober companionship, speaking engagements, group facilitation, and as a consultant to treatment centers and other programs.

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Would You Have the Courage to Search For Your Adopted Child?

Julie McLaughlin was 18 and pregnant - labeled as a 'good Catholic girl' from a good family. She sang in a group at church and was president of the Catholic Youth Organization. She was embarrassed, ashamed, and felt helpless. That was during an era when teenage pregnancy was not easily accepted. The lesson she learned from that experience has supported her throughout life.

Julie is a retired paralegal and first-time author who won numerous awards as a writer. During her interview, she shares how writing can be a healing tool for each of us. Her story may make you laugh and cry but also give you hope.

Her book, The Gift of Time has allowed her the opportunity to meet adoptees, adoptive parents, as well as other birth mothers. 

There is a twist to this story you never saw coming and will certainly give you the courage to never ever give up hope.

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"Do we have any skeletons in our closet?"

That was the question posed to the author's mother-in-law by a niece after receiving a private message through Facebook from a stranger who said, "I think you are my cousin." This led to a shocking phone call on a normal June day, which altered the author's life.

For forty years, Julie had kept a secret from most of the people in her life. A Catholic girl from a good family in the late 1970s, she had become pregnant in her late teens but was not ready to be a mom. With guidance from her parish priest, Julie went away to live in a home for other unwed, pregnant girls and made the difficult decision to give her baby up for adoption. Not for forty years did she know a thing about him--what his name was, what he looked like, where he lived, or what he did for a living. Until that June day in 2018, when he was revealed to be that baby, now a forty-year-old man. Yet she always had faith that her decision was right as she placed her son in God's hands.

Over two years, this birth mother and biological son get to know each other and enter each other's lives. There are interesting twists and turns. Had their paths ever crossed?

This personal and honest memoir dives into the author's heartache, loss, and guilt. You will laugh, and you might cry. Some who have experienced the real story compare it to a beautiful Hallmark movie. In the end, the hole in the author's heart is filled.

The author hopes this adoption story can bring peace to others who have endured a similar fate.

How to Change from Being a Worrier to a Light Warrior of Influence

Cynthia Encinas-Concordia’s abusive husband of 23 years died of a massive cardiac arrest just four months after his second restraining order.  The worst part was any contact was blocked by his family and she was blamed for his death.

Cynthia lived in that dark bubble for six years. She stopped engaging with people because of fear of rejection, failure as a mom and wife, depression, and lacking value. Her guilt impacted her health, well-being, and relationships. 

Many will relate to her story, and Cynthia wants you to realize that you have value and can live the life of your dreams, regardless of your past.

Cynthia Encinas-Concordia is a transformational life coach, published author, international speaker, podcaster, mother, and grandma. 

As a Human Resource practitioner at the World Bank in Washington D.C., her job involved dealing with diverse groups of people. Her professional knowledge, experience, and skills coupled with her personal life journey led her to share and work with others to create the lives they would like to live.

“I am leaving my footprints so the young generation may be inspired and continue what we are doing – making an impact in this world."

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My Journey Into Becoming

This book is for the ones who have fought great battles without knowing they were indeed warriors.

Immobilized by trauma, Cynthia, the author of this autobiographical page-turner, found a way to break free and move forward.  Cynthia Encinas-Concordia shares her notes on her transformational journey into manifesting her life dream. She has become a force of influence in her career as a life coach. With this book, she intends to expand the horizon of her positive impact. She has laid out a path for those who wish to live a life they love and have fought great battles without knowing they were indeed warriors. They are the ones who kept going even though they felt lost, and the ones who never stopped hoping that days would come when they would prosper and flourish.

"Let us always be that light for others so that others may also spread their light for those who need them."

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What would you love to do, have, create, be, and give? Each one of us has had an experience in life wherein we have reached rock bottom, gotten stuck, and felt scared to move to swim back to the surface of the ocean. 

Are we waiting passively allowing this to happen or do we choose to work our way through it to find and reach that light?

Waiting may not be the best way to achieve our goal. We need to put in the work for that light to manifest and that is when wonderful things in our lives begin to work their way into existence.

Dream to Rise is more than a collection of 19 real-life stories; it is a source of motivation, a wellspring of strength, and a reminder that brighter days are coming.

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How Can Cancer Have Humorous Moments?

During Ann Bancroft's first cancer treatment, which consisted of two surgeries, chemotherapy, and radiation, she reached the point of being too weak to lift a light wastebasket or to walk further than a few yards. She was bald, her skin looked gray, smelled like chemicals and her mouth tasted like metal. It felt as if her life was draining away, and she could not imagine a time when she’d look and feel healthy again.

Ann Bancroft is a 71-year-old, two-time breast cancer survivor with a degree in journalism. Her debut novel, Almost Family, was recently published. Ann began writing fiction after a career in journalism and communications. Cancer prompted her to retire from a demanding full-time job to become a writer. 

Ann has been a volunteer mentor to dozens of cancer patients. Many will relate to her story, and everyone will be encouraged. She shares how a second cancer diagnosis, thirteen years later, did not bring the fear that dominated her life the first time. 

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Liz Millanova has stage four cancer, a grown daughter who doesn’t speak to her, 

and obsessive memories of a relationship that tore apart her marriage. She thinks

of herself as someone who’d rather die than sit through a support group, 

but now that she is going to die, she figures she might as well give it 

a go.

Mercy’s Thriving Survivors is a hospital-sponsored group held in a presumably 

less depressing location: Nordstrom’s employee training lounge. There, Liz hits 

it off with two other patients, and the three unlikely friends decide to ditch the 

group and meet on their own. 

They call themselves the Oakland Mets, and their goal is to enjoy life while 

they can. 

Together, Dave, a gay Vietnam vet, and Rhonda, a devout, nice woman who’s hiding

a family secret and finds peace in a gospel choir, and snarky Liz plans outings to 

hear jazz, enjoy nature, and tour Alcatraz. In the odd intimacy they form, 

Liz learns to open up and get close, acknowledge and let go of the dysfunction

in her marriage, and repair her relationship with her daughter. 

They joined forces to have an enjoyable  time—but what they wound up doing is helping 

one another come to grips with terminal cancer and resolve the unfinished 

business in their lives.

 

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How to Find Joy in All Seasons of Life

Yvette Walker left a failed marriage to a man with bipolar disorder but emerged to find joy greater than she had hoped for. She is an author, speaker, journalist and educator who knows how to experience joy in all circumstances. 

Yvette's podcast, Positively Joy, has been an inspiration to many, especially those who relate to loss, a failed marriage, and disappointment. 

Yvette's story is a testament to the power of faith and how it can restore and heal even the deepest of wounds. Yvette speaks of struggles and her journey to finding the faith she had been searching for all her life. Her story is a testament to the power of grace and love that can be found in the Lord, and how faith can bring an even greater sense of peace and joy when all else fails. Yvette's story is an inspiring reminder that even in our darkest moments, faith can lead us to a brighter and more fulfilling future.

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This is a great book for anyone looking to draw closer to God, whether you are a Christian or

just interested in having a meaningful relationship with Him. Yvette's honest and heartfelt devotionals provide a window into the heart of God, and an invitation to enter into conversation with Him. 

The stories, prayers, and exercises are sure to help you find peace and clarity in your relationship with Him. This book of devotions allows you to look at your assumptions and spend time with God.

Follow prayers and exercises to still yourself and come into His presence as you enter into conversation with our Lord.  

• Discover that God is speaking to you
• Choosing joy is an option you must practice
• You can learn to trust Him again
• Allow God to place you where He wants you
• BONUS Multimedia experience: Four original music tracks that add to the 
• devotional encounter.

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"Linda, I know you won't remember me, but my daughter was killed by Mayfield Sherman."
Christian reporter Linda Radcliffe felt like someone kicked her in the gut. Mayfield Sherman? Lord! That monster was put to death several years ago, but not before he killed several women. He'd made a stop in Oklahoma, right on Linda's reporting beat. But she'd left, and Sherman was a big part of the reason. She had read the police files. She had seen the photos. Twenty years later, she's back to help a family she once covered. When she meets her old colleague, now the editor of the town paper, feelings once dampened begin to rise again.

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Song lyrics are poems at heart. Words that come from a deep discovery of the love of God. These poems are song lyrics – some realized, some needing music – that Yvette wrote at the same time as the devotional, Whispering in His Ear, came to life.

We talk to God. Sometimes. But we really don't expect a response. Neither do we look for him in everyday situations. Yvette does, and she tells of her simple but poignant life lessons with God in these lyrics!

Yvette Walker's testimony drives this book of poetry: that you can be a believer all your life without fully understanding the joy that comes from the Father is the very joy that completes you.

Yvette says, "I hope you enjoy these 12 faith-filled poems from my heart, written by the Holy Spirit."

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Do You Worry About How Your Child Will Survive School? Or Life?

Are you feeling panicked about your child's future?

How will your child survive school with low literacy?

Do you question: How will they survive school? Or life?

Lois Letchford has stood in your shoes. Her young son, Nicholas, failed first grade. The prognosis was dire. Replacing the despair, Lois took on his teaching to find her son was not 'slow' Nicholas went from 'failing' first grade to a P.H.D. from Oxford.

Lois Letchford's dyslexia came to light at the age of 39 when she faced teaching her son, Nicholas. Examining her reading failure caused her to adapt and change lessons. The results were dramatic. Lois qualified as a reading specialist using her non-traditional background, multi-continental experience, and passion for assisting other failing students. 

The label provided for her son was not accurate or applicable. Lois chose to change that.

Her story will inspire you and encourage anyone concerned about their child's education.

In 1995, the school diagnostician called a seven-year-old “the worst child seen in 20 years of teaching.” Can a child’s fate be sealed by such a diagnosis? Well, in 2018, that boy received a Ph.D. from Oxford University. 

Do you have a child struggling with reading? What labels has your child been given? How do you feel they will progress through school? This is a story for you.

Every parent has high hopes for their children. When Lois Letchford learns her son has been diagnosed with a low IQ at the end of grade one, she refuses to give up on his future. After thorough testing, Nicholas proves to have no spatial awareness, limited concentration, and can only read ten words. 

Although discouraged, Lois knows things have to improve. After all, her son is young, and every child learns at their own pace. But once Nicholas is labeled "learning disabled," a designation considered more derogatory than "dyslexia," the world of education is quick to cast him aside.

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Determined to prove them all wrong, Lois temporarily removes her son from the school system and begins working with him one-on-one. She has no formal reading education herself, and no one to guide her. But she has hope and the strength of will to persevere. And sometimes that's all you need.

What happens next is a journey—spanning three continents, unique teaching experiments, never-ending battles with the school system, a mother’s discovery of her own learning blocks, and a bond fueled by the desire to rid Nicholas of the “disabled” label.

Reversed: A Memoir is a memoir of profound determination that follows the highs and lows of overcoming impossible odds, turning one woman into a passionate teacher for children who have been left behind. Nothing is impossible when one digs deep and looks at students through a new lens.

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