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January 13, 2016
039: Sean Patrick – Lessons Learned from Going Global
I first met my guest when we were picking each others brains about some mutual business opportunities. What I quickly realized are the valuable lessons he learned growing his business, taking it global and thinking about others at the same time. I knew he had to be on the show to share with you those lessons and tell us about some really brilliant products he developed as a result of being aware of opportunities right in front of him.
Sean Patrick is the President and Founder of kikstick over 13 years of marketing, management and business start up experience and his strengths lie in developing a strong profit increase through offline marketing, website promotion, search engine optimization, social media marketing and sales. Getting his start in 2002 it is his belief that the key to building long term business relationships is in providing result oriented services that bring a positive ROI for clients while providing and increase in their health and safety. His websites are www.health-safety-canada.ca
January 9, 2016
038: Rene Brent – How Big is Your BUT?
It is the new year and most of the world will be setting resolutions to get rid of their physical behind. Most of those resolutions will end as quickly as they began with little to no change having happened. Why? According to my guest it is because of your BUT. Those three little letters that when combined can stop any resolution from starting and even can stop it, once set, from finishing.
How do you stop your BUT from stopping you? Take a listen and pen paper and pen or keyboard handy as we take you through an exercise to gain awareness of your BUT and stop it in its tracks.
Rene Brent is a State-Licensed Certified Clinical and Transpersonal Hypnotherapist. She is a Director and Certified Instructor for the Florida Institute of Hypnotherapy’s Externship Program in Orlando Florida.
Rene Brent Hypnosis is located in Maitland, Florida. She uses a variety of modalities to give her clients the opportunity to gain self-confidence and strength to release blocks and move forward in their lives.
As an RN for over 25 yrs in ICU, Trauma/ER and Recovery, Rene was inspired by the powerful mind/body connection and how self-awareness and reframing negative thoughts helps all of us heal emotionally and physically.
She is passionate about helping people gain confidence, peace of mind, self-awareness and Creating a Life they Love to Live. www.renebrent.com
December 30, 2015
037: Melissa Tosetti – Living a Savvy Life
If you’re looking for tips on how to be frugal, this isn’t the show for you. If you’re looking for tips for how to build your financial foundation WHILE enjoying the journey then tune in! Getting control of your finances doesn’t have to be an over the top challenge. My guest on this show is a lifestyle financial specialist. She teaches you how to achieve your financial dreams while living the life you want and dream of.
Some of the questions we ask in this show are: Are you being purposeful about your time and your finances? How can you get out of debt and still have a life you love? When you buy something, is it the item you love or the buying of the item? We also ask, What’s for dinner? You will understand when you listen to the show on that last one!
Tweet your questions to @thelaurasteward and to Melissa @thesavvylife and let’s get you living the financial life you dream of.
Melissa is a nationally recognized author, speaker and teacher on the topic of personal finance from a lifestyle perspective. She is the author of the international best seller Living The Savvy Life and was the spokesperson for Quicken 2013 . She teaches courses on Savvy Living and is regularly quoted in the national media.
December 23, 2015
036: Mary Riesberg – Hula Hoops, Life and Holding Yourself Up
What does a Hula Hoop have to do with the inner you? More than you can imagine. Picture this: You are a child playing with a hula hoop. Learning to spin it around and around without it dropping. As you are learning, it falls to the ground. You learn that you must be fully present in the motion of the hoop around your body in order to keep it spinning so it does not fall to the ground. While it is spinning your mind quiets, your joy expands and time passes quicker than you ever thought possible.
Now imagine all your responsibilities. Got them? Put them inside your hula hoop. Can you keep it spinning easily? No? Now bring some support to the hula hoop as it starts to fall from the weight. Better?
My guest today talks to us about how you can create your own personal hula hoop support system to find balance, create momentum and create a relationship with your faith.
Mary Riesberg is a communication skills expert, professional speaker, author, John Maxwell Certified Leadership Trainer, and Human Behaviors Specialist. She works with individuals to empower them to connect, develop, and grow into the unique individual God has created them to be. She has over 26 years of experience transforming beginners/professional speakers, radio and news personalities, government officials and singers to become a Total Impact Speaker. A few of Mary associations include Chick-fil-A, American Society of Training and Development, and American Women’s Association. She is a Certified Christian Life Coach.
December 11, 2015
035: Lhea Scotto-Laub – Resumes that Sell
Resumes are all about selling you and most people get them wrong. Did you know you need more than one resume? Did you know how resumes have changed and what you are probably doing wrong on yours that may be blocking you from getting that dream job? What about that interview? Want to know how to nail it?
I haven’t written a resume in over 15 years. Owning my own business all I need is a bio nowadays and even that I learned, after talking to my guest, can use an update. But how do you choose what goes in?
How do you unlock the words to the skills you truly have versus those you think you have? How do you make a gap in work or several jobs with short term employment not become a red flag to a potential employer?
Listen as I question Lhea Scotto-Laub who has written over 14,000 resumes, cover letters, bios and personal statements. My eyes were opened!
Lhea Scotto-Laub is the president and owner of Quantum Business Group, Inc. in Massapequa, New York, a recruitment firm, professional résumé writing service and interview coaching firm. Lhea has composed more than fourteen-thousand résumés, bios, cover letters and personal statements. Additionally, she has placed over one- thousand candidates in her career.
In the volunteer arena, Lhea is the Past President of the Long Island Center for Business & Professional Women, a thirty year premier women’s networking organization. She has chaired several committees and co-established the Speed Networking event. Additionally, Lhea served as a board member of the Long Island Women’s Business Council for several years and was a former board member of the US Women’s Chamber of Commerce, where she contributed to the launch of the first Diversity Awards on Long Island in 2004.
Lhea has co-chaired and sat on the Women of Distinction committee for the March of Dimes, for over seven years, helping to improve the mortality rate of babies and expectant mothers. From 2004-2006 Lhea wrote a monthly a column for liwomen.com, spotlighting a Long Island businesswoman who makes a difference. In 2010, Lhea was honored with the President’s Award and Achievers Award by the Long Island Center for Business and Professional Women. She received citations from Governor Andrew Cuomo and Councilwoman Dorothy Goosby for humanitarian efforts and volunteerism. From 2009 to the 14 Lhea was an active member of Rotary, an international organization that served humanity locally, as well as internationally. She was secretary of the West Hempstead Rotary Club and remain involved in RYLA, a youth leadership arm of Rotary on Long Island.
Last but not least, Lhea was a single-parent for more than twenty years, and the proud mother of three sons… and grandmother to seven grandchildren. Additionally, she remarried and has two grown step-children. Being a single parent since her sons were one, three and five, she was determined to raise educated, kind young men who possess a strong work ethic, integrity, and a humanitarian heart. She considers them her biggest success! www.success-resumes.com or www.822jobs.com
December 3, 2015
34: Dr. Anna Cabeca – Normal may not be optimal
What if what you have come to accept as normal levels of health are not normal and definitely not optimal? What if the level of pain, swelling, physical and mental fitness that snuck up on you as you got older didn’t need to stay? How would your life be different? Be better?
I have been dealing with health issues for a number of years now and been asking question after question. Once I was told I was sick because I was depressed because I wasn’t with a man. As a woman, our symptoms are often discounted. It is up to all of us, women or men, to be our own best health advocate and to challenge the in-range blood work when we know there is something wrong.
My guest today challenges us to ask those questions and also gives us answers. It IS all about the questions you ask and on this show we learn some questions to ask yourself and your doctor and a few tests that everyone should have run the next time they go to the doctor’s for a physical.
Dr. Anna Cabeca is a board certified Gynecologist and Obstetrician, as well as board certified in Anti-Aging and Regenerative Medicine, an expert in Functional Medicine, and an expert in women’s health. She specializes in bio-identical hormone replacement therapy and natural alternatives, successful menopause and age management medicine.
Dr. Cabeca earned her medical degree from Nova-Southeastern University of the Health Sciences in Florida. Since completing her residency at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, she has maintained a private practice in Southeast Georgia.
Dr. Cabeca frequently lectures nationally and internationally regarding restorative health and women’s health issues. She is a consultant and trainer for other physicians in Bio-Identical Hormone Replacement Therapy and Functional Medicine Principles.
A mother of five, Dr. Cabeca is a native English speaker who is conversant in four languages. Growing up in a multi-lingual and cultural household nurtured her love for international medicine and travel, which she pursues to this day. She has traveled around the world learning healing modalities from leading physicians, scientists, and other practitioners across Asia, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and South America.
Her belief is that the advantages of creating health and hormone balance are that we not only improve our own health, but also improve the health of our generations to follow.
She is the co-creator of the Sexy Younger You telesummit and the creator of the highly acclaimed virtual transformational programs: WomensRestorativeHealth.com and SexualCPR.com.
Get a free gift as a listener of It’s All About the Questions and a serious discount off one of her programs. Just click this link, http://cabecahealth.com/gifts/ to get 5 special gifts to help women reclaim their energy, sensuality and zeal for living! or this link for the discounted program on optimal health: http://womensrestorativehealth.com/
November 30, 2015
033: Faye Nulman – Tapping Your Way Out of Overwhelm
How to Control and release overwhelm in 5 minutes or less. Sound too good to be true? From personal experience and according to my producer who had never heard of EFT or Tapping, it is.
Emotional Freedom Technique, AKA EFT or tapping has been around for a long time yet it amazes me that more people don’t know about it and use it on an everyday basis. I know about it and yet I keep forgetting to use it. Then I use it and POW. Unstuck, pain reduced or gone and overwhelm banished.
Today’s show is all about how you can release overwhelm and how emotions get trapped int eh body and can cause pain. During the show my guest guides us through a short session to release overwhelm and then my producer tells what happened for him while he followed along.
You won’t want to miss this one especially as we head full steam into the holiday season!
Faye Nulman-The Soul Pro EFT-ADV, CYT, CMT
Faye is an Intuitive Transformational Empowerment Specialist; a human GPS for emotional, personal and life guidance. She is an International speaker and educator who utilizes her years of training and personal one on one work incorporating modalities such as: EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique), NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming), Strategic Intervention Coaching, Access Bars, Reiki, Massage Therapy, Raw Foods, Yoga, Sound Healing, & Relaxation Meditative modalities to ingrain a sense of positive energy flow within each client or group.
Faye’s ability to aid in releasing the blocks to regain a natural flow of self care, self respect, self acceptance and self appreciation has helped many find peace of mind, strength and courage to overcome addictions, abuse and self sabotage. Her guidance opens the gates of creativity, confidence, and a sense of direction for those feeling “less than” what their true potential is.
As a guide, Faye has the ability to provide a blueprint for those open and ready for change in their personal, family and business related lives. You will learn to confidently “BE” who you know you can be without the need for acceptance of others. You will open the flow of positive attraction for all you dream of and truly desire. If you are ready to transform to a new and/or improved self, you are willing to do the work, and you are seeking the right guide to make this transformation.
November 20, 2015
031: Vero Beach Book Center – 40 years of books
40 years of books being an everyday part of life. Growing up in a bookstore with access to any book you could possibly want to read. I can only imagine what that would be like! My guest today runs the family bookstore that is an integral part of the local community and that regularly gets some of the top authors in the world today to come and speak and sign books and interact with their fans.
What makes them so successful when so many bookstores are closing? What have they learned about what makes a book successful? How do they work with new and emerging authors who don’t have major publishing deals yet have something to say in their books? How do you, as a potential author make sure you are doing the best things to get your books into a bookstore? What are they doing to celebrate 40 years of success?
And we answer the question everyone wants to know the answer to: Can you judge a book by its cover?
In this episode I ask questions of Chad Leonard, second generation bookstore owner of the Vero Beach Book Center and Cynthia Callander, Director of Publicity and Marketing. www.verobeachbookcenter.com Twitter @verobooks
November 18, 2015
032: Sally Armstrong – Uprising – A New Day is Dawning for Every Mother’s Daughter
When I first met Sally Armstrong I knew instantly that my life would never be the same. When she spoke, my perspectives were challenged and my worldview shifted. What I thought I knew about women, men, culture and world religion went out the window and I realized how the power of a voice can change the world.
My producer was almost in tears when the show was over because he had never heard about some of the things we talked about and others he thought were no longer in practice. Sally challenges us to walk in the world with our eyes, minds and hearts open. I challenge you to look at your life, after you listen to the show and tell me, and the world where you have been silent in your life and how you are now going to use your voice. I am on twitter @TheLauraSteward and Sally is @SallyArmstrong9
Human rights activist, journalist and award-winning author Sally Armstrong has covered stories about women and girls in zones of conflict all over the world. From Bosnia and Somalia to the Middle East, Rwanda, Congo and Afghanistan, her eye witness reports have earned her awards including the Gold Award from the National Magazine Awards Foundation and the Author’s Award from the Foundation for the Advancement of Canadian Letters. She received the Amnesty International Media Award in 2000, 2002 and again in 2011.
She was a member of the International Women’s Commission a UN body that consists of 20 Palestinian women, 20 Israeli women and 12 internationals whose mandate is assisting with the path to peace in the Middle East.
In 1996, Sally was honoured by the YWCA of Toronto with the prestigious Women of Distinction Award in Communications. In 1997 she received the Achievement Award for Human Rights for Women from Jewish Women International; in 1998 Media Watch’s Dodi Robb Award and in 2003, the Foundation Award for Outstanding Achievement from the National Magazine Awards Foundation. In 2005, she received the Athena International Award (Chicago), the World of Difference Award from the International Alliance for Women (Florida) and the Red Cross Humanitarian Award – New Brunswick Region. In 2008 she received the Clarkson Laureate for public service at Massey College, University of Toronto. And in May 2008, she received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Canadian Journalism Foundation. In March 2010, she became the fourth recipient of The Calgary Peace Prize.
She is the recipient of eight honorary doctorate degrees and is a Member of the Order of Canada.
Her book Veiled Threat: The Hidden Power of the Women of Afghanistan was published by Penguin Books in 2002. The Nine Lives of Charlotte Taylor was published by Random House in 2007. Bitter Roots, Tender Shoots: the Uncertain Fate of Afghanistan’s Women was published by Penguin in 2008. Her new book Ascent of Women: Our turn, our way – a remarkable story of world-wide change was published by Random House in March 2013. A revised version called Uprising: A new age is dawning for every mother’s daughter was published in March 2014 by St. Martins Press in New York. www.sallyarmstrong.org
November 4, 2015
030: Jacki Zehner – Women Moving Millions – Women and wealth, philanthropy, and leadership
From Goldman Sachs to Philanthropist and Chief Engagement Officer of Women Moving Millions to producing movies about rape on campus and making the Top 50 Global Diversity List by The Economist of individuals who have used their position in public life to make an impact in diversity my guest today reveals the questions that drove her and still drive her to make an impact each day.
Jackie Zehner PhotosJackie Zehner poses for a picture at her home on October 20, 2010 in Park City, Utah. Photo by George Frey
Jacki Zehner dedicates her time and resources towards the advancement of women and girls. As the President of The Jacquelyn and Gregory Zehner Foundation, a role she has held for the past 15 years, Jacki funds a variety of projects and organizations, with a particular focus on women’s rights, women’s foundations, movement building, and media.
In 2012, Jacki became the Chief Engagement Officer and President of Women Moving Millions (WMM), a non-profit organization based in New York City dedicated to mobilizing unprecedented resources for the advancement of women and girls. With more than 240 members, each contributing a million dollars or more to organizations of their choice, WMM has successfully brought the needs of women and girls to the forefront of philanthropic giving.
Prior to her philanthropic focus, Jacki was a Partner and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs in New York City, where she was the youngest woman and first female trader to make partner. Jacki serves on a number of boards and advisory committees, and is an active writer, speaker, consultant and featured expert on topics relating to women and wealth, philanthropy, and leadership. She currently lives in Park City, Utah with her husband Greg and two teenage children. @jackizehner or www.jackizehner.com
