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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How to Create the Intentional Life You Have Been Dreaming of But Struggled to Create

When Brian was a kid he was run over by a truck and his arm torn off. He learned from an early age not to allow people’s reactions to how he looked, slow him down. Instead of getting stuck in the rut of what happened to him, he was driven by what he could do with it.

 

Brian Bogert is a passionate human behavior and performance coach, speaker, business strategist, top sales professional, and philanthropic leader who believes in helping growth-minded individuals achieve the best version of themselves: their most authentic selves.

Do you have any idea how to create the intentional life you have been dreaming of but struggled to create? Brian's revolutionary strategy - embracing the pain to avoid suffering - has helped individuals and companies break beyond their normal to achieve the success in life they have always wanted. 

You will want to listen to this interview more than once - and learn how to create the life you have been dreaming of:

Successful individuals can also be stuck, frustrated by lack of progress, and stymied efforts to realize their own potential. Brian built his business from $250,000 in revenue to $15 million in a decade. In Brian's interview, he will show all of us how to get out of the rut and become our authentic selves.

Inside of each of us is a sleeping giant. Brian is a heart surgeon without a blade. He shows us that we should not start outside with what we need to do - but rather from the inside with who we ALREADY are.

Get a taste of the No Limits YOU experience with complimentary access to the first of seven video-guided chapters in the No Limits journey. 

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Do You Believe Anything is Possible if You Are Determined?

From the slums of Chicago to the hills of Hollywood, to legendary Carnegie Hall, award-winning actress, author, and teacher Susan Slavin has always triumphed over adversity.

Susan’s story touched me deeply and affected me for days afterward. What she endured and overcame in her life is an inspiration to everyone. When you listen to her remarkable interview, stay tuned until the end – cry with her, rejoice with her.

Born into abject poverty (one dinner roll to feed a family of six) and a family crippled by severe mental illness, Susan created miracles in her own life and the lives of others against all odds.

Starting with her scholarship to the famed Chicago Art Institute at age 12, then following her dream of becoming an actress to Hollywood in her early teens, Susan quickly became a working actress, winning numerous awards.

There, she was discovered by and worked with legendary director Jerome Robbins, (“A revelation…. the best actress I’ve come across.”).  He then summoned her to NYC where she built a critically acclaimed body of work, (“Stands out among the rest…” NY TIMES), as an actress in film, TV, and onstage. 

She demonstrated great range in works from zany comedy to high drama, to the classics, and everything in between.  She played roles that stretched the gambit from innocence to worldly-wise---from the homeless, to proper professionals, to upscale high-style glamour.  She co-starred opposite such stars as Glenn Close, Martin Sheen, Jean Smart, Maureen Stapleton, and Burt Reynolds. 

While continuing her acting career, she also branched out into teaching, founding her namesake school,” Susan Slavin Actors and Singers Academy at Carnegie Hall.

As an author, Susan’s story of transcending a mentally ill family was published in “Chicken Soup for the Soul, Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live”, and “The Soul of Success” (an anthology documenting stories of notable women who have achieved success by using their feminine attributes to transform adversity into triumph.

As a playwright, Susan has written three plays, including innovating a new art form in her one-woman play Motherlove in which she also acted. Acting in her play, The Other Side of Dear, she introduced 18 pieces of her artwork—each 12 feet high—to tell the story.  (“A virtuoso performance.”)   

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As she continues her lifelong passionate journey as an actress, she and her husband, bestselling author, and legendary image guru David Kibbe have also joined forces to transform people’s lives innovatively. Using his revolutionary “Image Identity System” which defines and executes each person’s snowflake rarity in an inner and outer physical way, they give their clients original fast-track tools to truly heal and fly towards realizing their dreams.

Susan's STIMULATING interview will excite and motivate you. We discussed:

Create your life by design - not by default

Nothing is impossible 

The Power of Desire

Dream Big - Start Small

Dare to DREAM

The Power of Forgiveness

LOVE CONQUERS ALL

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE

Is it possible to be happy all the time? For most of us, happiness comes and goes. Life may bring pleasure one day and pain the next. But what if you could love your life no matter what the circumstances? It's possible--and Life Lessons for Loving the Way You Live shows you how.

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How Do You Cope with Shock, Debilitating Loss, or Fear?

How do you cope with shock or fear? Do you have the inner strength when you feel like there is none left? Faith Wilcox was able to find moments that were good – even when her daughter was near the end of her life and as a mother, she was shredded apart by the grief of losing her daughter, her marriage, and life as she knew it.

Faith Fuller Wilcox believes that self-expression through writing leads to healing. Her writing is reflective of a growing body of medical research about 'narrative identity,' which illuminates that how we make sense of what happens to us and the meaning we give to experiences beyond our control directly impacts our physical and psychological outcomes. 

Faith learned this firsthand when her 13-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, was diagnosed with rare bone cancer that took her life. 

Faith also leads a journal writing program at a pediatric hospital for patients and their families designed to allow participants the opportunity to express themselves, alleviate stress, celebrate victories, and honor their grief. 

In her interview, Faith shares how she went from a mother in despair to a mother who had hope for the future. Through sharing her story, especially to those who have suffered a great loss, she wants you to know that life can continue after grieving and even be good. We can learn to live with sadness and joy side-by-side.  

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Hope Is a Bright Star is the story of a mother’s journey from shock and fear at her young daughter’s cancer diagnosis, to anguish and despair at her death just a year later and, finally, to peace and acceptance of her new life.

When 13-year-old Elizabeth is diagnosed with rare bone cancer, Faith is in awe of her courageous child, who faces her plight straight on and inspires all who meet her. Despite an army of medical professionals who provide innovative care for Elizabeth, she dies, and Faith and her surviving daughter, Olivia, are thrown into a maelstrom of grief. They find unexpected comfort in the arms of their family, friends, and community, but Faith faces another shock when she has her own cancer diagnosis while navigating the uncharted waters of a life she never expected. In time, Faith discovers moments and places of comfort and peace, and she slowly changes from a mother in despair to a woman with hope for the future. 

At turns heartbreaking and heartwarming, Hope Is a Bright Star reveals how abiding love can heal a family.

Hope Is a Bright Star made the ‘long list’ for the category Overcoming Adversity for the 2021 Chanticleer International Book Awards. 

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Facing Into the Wind - A Mother's Healing After the Death of her Child is a collection of poems written for parents and families who are coping with the death of a child. The poems are written about Elizabeth, her thirteen-year-old child, who battles a rare form of bone cancer, and her mother, Faith,  who struggles to survive after her daughter’s death.

Drawing upon metaphors with the natural world,  Faith remembers the transcending wisdom imparted by her dying daughter, healing Faith’s brokenness and awakening her strength to reach out and comfort others who are suffering.  

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Would You Like Clear Steps on How to Overcome Anxiety?

In 2009, in spite of a highly successful international marketing career, David Stone worried himself into homelessness. Then, fed up with the fear, anxiety, and self-doubt that got in the way of the life he wanted to live he set out to find a better way. Now he guides others to live fearlessly through books, workshops, keynotes and blogs.

"As long as you believe your problems is someone else's fault, then YOUR situation is in THEIR hands."

What are the biggest obstacles that keep us from achieving our highest potential? David Stone firmly believes that your parachute cannot open until you jump out of the plane.  

In this interview, David shares:

• The REAL story on worry, anxiety, and self-doubt (Hint: they are not “facts of life.”)

• We have all been trained and conditioned to worry

• You CAN choose to opt-out of anxiety

• How to stop worrying about anything. 

• How to make your worry-free life permanent.

Do You Want to Live Fearlessly?

What is i-fearless?

i-fearless is a website and community where smart, self-aware people leave worry, anxiety and self-doubt behind and take courageous control of their lives.

i-fearless is for:

• Intelligent individuals who choose to overcome anxiety without medication

• Rational, self-aware people who want to control their fears and negative thinking and take control of their lives.

i-fearless is also for:

• High-performing businesses that want to remove the fears and self-doubts that limit success

• Ambitious teams who recognize that collective anxiety can be a roadblock to success

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In the fall of 2009, at the age of 55, author David A. Stone reached the conclusion that anxiety, worry, and self-doubt were useless mental states. They felt awful, never improved the situation, depleted his health, and were roadblocks to achievement. So he decided to remove them from his life.

The list of things about which we worry is long and includes illness, financial ruin, loneliness and the opinions of others as just a few of the biggies. We also worry about paying the phone bill next month, whether that mole on your arm is getting any bigger, why my friend hasn’t liked my Instagram post, and what your mother will say if you go to Vegas with that guy for the weekend.

But what if you could deal with those, plus all the other challenges that come your way without the worry and anxiety? What would you do if you weren’t afraid? If you weren’t afraid to try, to fail, to be judged, to look foolish, and yes, even to succeed?

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UNSUBSCRIBE FROM ANXIETY

Worry and anxiety are rampant. They feel terrible, degrade health, finances, relationships, and quality of life without ever improving the situation. David A. Stone writes that they do not have to be a fact of life and are, in fact, unconscious mental and emotional choices that have become habits that can be eliminated. 

This book gives readers practical steps to overcome fear, anxiety and worry, replacing those mental habits with better, more constructive ones, leading to peace of mind and happier life. 

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