Author Episodes

1,462 | Rose Ann Forte on Breaking Free from Destructive Habits Rose Ann Forte is an international best-selling author, addiction and behavioral habits specialist, and the creator of the Choose Freedom Program, a framework that blends faith and neuroscience to help people break free from patterns that hold them back. Her work focuses on the renewal of the mind, guiding individuals to move beyond destructive thoughts, emotional cycles, and behaviors without shame or performance-driven pressure. Through her approach, she provides practical and compassionate tools that support lasting, sustainable transformation. Rose Ann is the author of The Plans He Has For Me and Prepare to Quit, and co-author of Transformed by His Promises. She works with individuals, churches, and counselors, equipping them to approach healing and growth with clarity, grace, and purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.choosefreedom.today 🎬 Need…

1,457 | Kalise White on Second Chances and Real Transformation Kalise White is a published author, motivational speaker, entrepreneur, and advocate for healing, transformation, and second chances. Her work is grounded in lived experience, hard earned wisdom, and a deep commitment to helping others reclaim their voice and purpose. After spending more than a decade incarcerated at a young age, Kalise returned home without a roadmap, resources, or support system. Through faith, discipline, and relentless self reflection, she rebuilt her life, becoming a two time published author, successful business owner, and a powerful voice for trauma recovery and emotional healing. Today, she speaks with honesty and conviction, reaching individuals navigating trauma, incarceration, abuse, grief, and identity loss. Her message resonates deeply, especially with women and justice impacted communities who often feel unseen and unheard. Kalise does not speak from theory. She speaks from truth. …

1,451 | Mary Lou Panzano on Leading Through Change and Loss Mary Lou Panzano is an award winning communications executive turned leadership coach, advisor, and speaker with more than 35 years of experience guiding organizations through complex change. After a profound personal loss, she stepped away from her corporate career to focus on what matters most to her, helping people grow, adapt, and truly prosper. Today, she works with individuals and leaders to navigate change with clarity, confidence, and resilience, both in business and in life. Mary Lou is a best selling co author of Cracking the Rich Code, Volume 18 and a contributing author to The Art of Connection: 365 Days of Resilience. Her upcoming book, Cementing Change: Cracking the Code for Communications that Work, is set for release in 2026. Deeply committed to service, she is a former board president of her local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and remains active in her church and community. Mary Lou lives in New …

1,448 | Bill Derrick on Surviving Cancer and Turning Adversity Into Strength Bill Derrick is a business leader, author, and speaker whose life and work are grounded in resilience, faith, and perseverance. With degrees in civil engineering and business from the University of Minnesota, he began his career in large-scale construction before joining his family’s company, Derrick Companies, in 1989. Alongside his family, Bill helped grow the business through years of success until the Great Recession of 2007 brought devastating challenges. After five years of fighting to keep the company alive, he emerged from that season stronger, only to face an even greater test in 2013 with a diagnosis of Multiple Myeloma, a life threatening blood cancer. Through extensive treatment, including chemotherapy and a stem cell transplant, Bill has remained in remission and continues to share his story as a source of strength and hope for others. His book, Restored by the Storm: Navigating Throu…

1,445 | Kym Coco on Mindfulness Movement and Living Fully Kym Coco is an author, yogi, and wellness educator who blends science, movement, and mindfulness to support a balanced, intentional life. She holds a Master’s Degree in Sports Kinesiology along with two 500 hour Yoga Teacher Training certifications, and has taught both disciplines at California State University, Chico and in workshops across the country. Today, Kym shares practical tools for well being through her book Miracle on the Mountainside and her blog, Swagtail.com, where she inspires others to reconnect with their bodies, mindset, and sense of adventure. Based in the Sierra Nevadas, Kym enjoys life on the road in her Sprinter Van, exploring scenic landscapes, discovering great golf courses, and embracing the freedom of a life well lived, alongside her two beloved Staffies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.swagtail.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean a…

1,443 | Reese Sabatini Blake on Healing Trauma Without Medication Reese Sabatini Blake is an author, speaker, and medicine woman who blends her background in high risk social services with holistic healing to support deep, personal transformation. Her work is centered on helping individuals reconnect with their true selves and move beyond trauma without relying on drugs or pharmaceuticals. Through her approach, Reese guides people toward clarity, healing, and a more grounded sense of self. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.trauma2bliss.ca 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Friday! #PositiveTalkRadio…

1,434 | Kurt Bush on Leading Authentically Without Self Doubt Kurt Bush is a certified Internal Family Systems practitioner, trauma-informed coach, and co-founder of Brimstone Coaching Group. With a background in corporate leadership, pastoral ministry, and coaching, he helps leaders move beyond self-doubt, step into authenticity, and lead with confidence. Having navigated his own experience with imposter syndrome, Kurt brings both empathy and practical insight to his work. Through Brimstone’s E + R = T approach, Encounter plus Reflection equals Transformation, he guides individuals and teams from exhaustion and frustration toward clarity, resilience, and wholeness. Kurt is also the co-author of Live Fully. Lead Authentically. , where he explores the connection between self-awareness, leadership, and meaningful impact. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.brimstonecoachinggroup.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio,…

1,432 | Dylan Bost on Building a Business Without Burnout Dylan Bost is the founder of Sunny HQ and author of *The 7 Mirrors*, a framework for building a business and life rooted in alignment rather than urgency. With 30 years of experience in design, architecture, and entrepreneurship, Dylan’s path includes a full professional collapse that led him to rebuild from the inside out. Today, he helps founders simplify their systems, reclaim their time, and lead with clarity. His work connects business strategy with personal growth, guiding leaders to respond instead of react, design with intention, and build companies that support their lives rather than consume them. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://dylanclaytonbost.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agency price tag. Perfect for creators, coache…

1,431 | Dr Robin Hall on Thriving After Life Changing Diagnosis Dr. Robin Hall is a board certified family physician, best selling author, entrepreneur, and keynote speaker who has experienced healthcare from every angle. As a physician, caregiver to her husband during his battle with stage IV lymphoma, and a breast cancer survivor herself, she brings rare depth, empathy, and perspective to her work. She was also a pioneer in the medical field, founding one of the first concierge medical practices in Texas despite widespread skepticism. Today, she empowers others to stop putting themselves last and give themselves permission to thrive in their health, mindset, and life. Her book, The Other Side of Illness: Unexpected Blessings, is a collection of real stories from patients and individuals who faced life altering health challenges and discovered growth, purpose, and hope along the way. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: ww…

1,430 | Dr Jerry Woodbridge on Helping Children Through Grief Dr. Jerry Woodbridge is an educator, author, and speaker with more than 40 years of experience supporting children and families through life’s most difficult moments. Throughout her career, she often found herself on the front lines helping students navigate grief and loss, shaping her passion for emotional healing and storytelling. Her latest book, Joy Overcame Sorrow, was inspired by both her professional work and personal journey through loss. Written from the perspective of a young girl coping with the death of her father, the story reflects Dr. Woodbridge’s belief that children need resources that speak to them in their own voice, especially when facing grief. A lifelong writer, Dr. Woodbridge has expressed her experiences through poetry, journaling, and previous works, including her devotional Trading My Sorrows for the Joy of the Lord. After losing her husband and experiencing other profound losses, writing …

1,429 | Lisa Conway on Surviving 100 Shock Therapy Treatments Lisa A. Conway, MSW, is a mental health advocate, author, and former medical social worker dedicated to ethical care, patient advocacy, and lived experience recovery. After years in the medical field, she now focuses on raising awareness around transparency, informed consent, and patient centered approaches in mental health treatment, especially in relation to shock therapy. As an ECT survivor who underwent more than one hundred treatments, Lisa speaks openly about the long term impact of psychiatric interventions and the importance of honoring patient voices. Her memoir, Shocked, offers a powerful and personal look into mental illness, the healthcare system, and the journey from trauma to advocacy. Through her writing and speaking, Lisa works to reduce stigma while encouraging honest, necessary conversations about mental health, recovery, and compassionate care. She enjoys running with her service dog Teddy, writi…

1,425 | Dr Michael Godin on Surgery Surfing and Survival Dr. Michael Godin is a facial plastic surgeon practicing in Richmond, Virginia and Southern California. Alongside his medical career, he is also an author known for blending humor, storytelling, and real life experience into his work. He wrote the acclaimed debut novel *The Big Prick: Surgery, Surfing, and Survival in 1980s San Diego*, followed by *Fighting Gravity*, a romantic comedy set in the world of plastic surgery. His stories draw from his experiences training during the HIV pandemic of the 1980s, as well as his life outside the operating room. Dr. Godin enjoys living on both coasts with his wife, their adult sons, and two dogs, one very well behaved and the other a bit more spirited, both equally loved. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.msgodin.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at …

1,424 | Build a Self Running Business with David Salerno David Salerno is a serial entrepreneur, author, and Vice Chair of the Montreal Economic Institute, Canada’s leading free market think tank. Over more than twenty years, he founded and scaled Solpak Packaging Solutions to eight figure revenues, serving over 530 clients across Canada before executing a successful exit. His book, *Built For Freedom*, introduces the Sherpa Method, a nine step framework for building businesses that operate independently of their founders. A three time Mercuriades finalist and Forbes Business Council member, David now leads Entrepreneur Sherpa, where he helps growth stage entrepreneurs across North America build scalable, self sustaining companies. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.davidsalerno.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tie…

1,420 | From Emotional Eating to Healing with Jane McGuinness Jane McGuinness is a Registered Clinical Counsellor, author, and mother of three who brings warmth, honesty, and lived experience into her work. Originally from Australia, she now calls North Vancouver home, where she embraces the outdoors and finds balance through hiking and biking. A recovering emotional eater, Jane is a strong advocate for acceptance, gratitude, and kindness. Her approach to life and counseling is rooted in compassion, self awareness, and the belief that joy and laughter are essential to healing. Her debut book, Always Hungry: How I Lost the Weight and Found Myself, shares her personal journey and offers insight into the deeper emotional side of transformation. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.janemcguinnesstheauthor.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedi…

1,418 | Greg Thomas on Leadership Mentorship and Championship Culture Greg Thomas has spent 29 years serving students in public education as an at risk counselor and mentor. For more than 22 years, he has also coached high school athletics, including serving as an assistant basketball coach on the 2023 to 2024 6A State Championship team that finished a perfect 40 and 0 season, as well as sponsoring a bowling program that has won four state championships. He is the author of two five time award winning books and is passionate about guiding young people toward confidence, purpose, and success. Greg is married to his wife Becky and is proud of their blended family of seven children and ten grandchildren. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://gregthomasconnect.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quality without the agenc…

1,409 | Florian Kemmerich on Driving Social and Environmental Impact Florian Kemmerich is an impact investor, entrepreneur, and author dedicated to a simple principle: impact lives and share profits. As Co Founder and Managing Partner of Human Planet and Resilienture, he works to mobilize innovative finance and partnerships that empower communities and protect the planet. A respected global leader, Florian serves as Chair of TIGER 21 Switzerland and has long been active within the Young Presidents’ Organization. Over the years, he has helped raise nearly one billion dollars for organizations and funds focused on measurable social and environmental impact. Through his book On Vocation (Routledge, 2025) and his podcast IMPACTCAST, Florian explores how leadership, purpose, and capital can work together to drive meaningful global change. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://on-vocation.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean…

1,403 | Nika Kozyra Explains the Power of Sto Lat Wellness Nika Kozyra serves on the front lines as a Federal Police Officer and Emergency Medical Responder, while also guiding transformation as an Intuitive Integrative Wellness Life Coach, author, and motivational speaker in the Washington, DC area. Her path is anything but ordinary. After navigating her own journey through chronic pain, Nika discovered that true healing required more than physical treatment. It required reconnection. That awakening led her to found Sto Lat Wellness, where she helps individuals rebuild trust with their bodies, regulate their nervous systems, and align their mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual lives. Blending real world first responder experience with psychology and holistic wellness practices, Nika brings grounded strength and compassionate presence to every client she serves. She teaches that healing is not about becoming someone new. It is about returning to who you already are. …

1,400 | John Diggs Shares His Blueprint for Health Wealth and Happiness John Diggs, known as Your Mappineering Mentor, is a transformational speaker, coach, and author committed to helping people unlock their full potential. A former college and professional football player, John understands what it takes to perform under pressure and turn discipline into results. He created Mappineering, a powerful framework that combines mind mapping with intentional life design. Through this approach, John helps students, professionals, athletes, and leaders gain clarity, define their identity, and move forward with purpose. His signature I AM system guides individuals to set meaningful goals and create success in health, wealth, happiness, and overall life fulfillment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.JohnDiggs.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmed…

1,397 | Amanda Cassar Shares How to Reclaim Financial Confidence Amanda Cassar is a financial adviser, author, and advocate whose work sits at the intersection of money, relationships, and personal autonomy. With more than two decades of experience, she supports individuals and families through life transitions with clarity, dignity, and confidence. Internationally recognized for her leadership in financial abuse awareness, Amanda equips professionals to identify and respond to hidden forms of control and coercion. Through her writing, speaking, and her podcast *Financial Secrets Revealed*, she challenges outdated money myths and reframes financial conversations around safety, values, and informed choice. At her core, Amanda believes money should be a tool that supports a life well lived, not a force that limits it. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.wealthplanningpartners.com.au 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean…

1,395 | Anne Karber Shares How Radical Self-Awareness Changes Everything Anne Karber is an author, podcast host, and voice for intentional living and radical self-awareness. She is the author of The Life Hack Playbook, a practical and deeply personal guide that explores how self-honesty, energy management, and conscious choice can reshape the way we experience our lives. As host of the Let’s Get Naked podcast, Anne leads raw and unscripted conversations about healing, identity shifts, boundaries, and rebuilding a life that feels aligned and sustainable. Her work is grounded in lived experience, including navigating burnout, internal disruption, and the decision to stop living on autopilot. Through her writing and conversations, Anne helps people move from survival mode to self-trust. She teaches that lasting growth comes not from perfection or hustle, but from awareness, ownership, and the courage to choose differently. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some lo…

1,394 | Ed McCarthy on the 5 Decisions That Change Your Life Ed McCarthy is a self-made entrepreneur, investor, lifestyle strategist, global nomad, and intentional dad who teaches financial freedom through purposeful lifestyle design. A first-generation American from Boston, Ed built his success from the ground up and credits intentional decisions, discipline, and clarity for shaping both his wealth and his character. Through his book Life Letters, he shares 26 Wisdom Transfer letters from A to Z that outline the key declarations and decisions that create personal and professional success at every stage of life. His message is simple yet powerful: you are only five decisions away from living the life you envision. Ed’s mission is to positively transform one million lives by helping people align wealth, wisdom, and happiness with their highest potential. He lives in the mountains of Colorado with his wife and children. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love…

1,393 | Ed Hajim Shares How Adversity Built a Wall Street Leader Ed Hajim is a Wall Street executive, philanthropist, and author whose life reflects resilience, discipline, and reinvention. Kidnapped by his father at age three and raised in foster homes and orphanages, Ed overcame extraordinary hardship to build a five decade career in finance. He held senior leadership roles at Lehman Brothers, Furman Selz, and ING, and now serves as Chairman of HighVista Strategies. Beyond business, Ed is deeply committed to expanding access to education and opportunity through the Hajim Family Foundation. His memoir, On the Road Less Traveled, and his inspirational fable, The Island of the Four Ps, offer readers a practical framework for discovering purpose, values, and direction. His philosophy is simple and powerful: adversity does not define you. Your response does. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.edhajim.com/ 🎬 Need s…

1,389 | M.E. Torrey on Writing With Purpose and Global Impact M.E. Torrey has been captivated by words since childhood. By age eleven she was devouring classic literature, and after spending much of her youth living in France, England, and Germany, she developed a deep appreciation for culture, complexity, and the human story. A published writer since age ten, M.E. Torrey has authored twelve children’s books with major publishers including Random House and Penguin, and worked for more than twenty years in the children’s book industry as an author, speaker, and educator. She is also co-founder of Orphans Africa, a nonprofit that has helped educate thousands of children in Tanzania through sustainable boarding schools now fully operated by local leadership. Holding degrees in Microbiology and Immunology and Religion, Torrey writes about moral complexity, social justice, and the possibility of healing in a divided world. Her award-winning debut novel for adults is Fox Creek.…

1,388 | Christopher Rivers on Navigating Ambition Without Losing Yourself Christopher Rivers is a former US Army officer and combat veteran who enlisted at 17 and served in Kuwait, Iraq, and Afghanistan. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he earned a bachelor’s degree in Physics with a focus on Nuclear Engineering, along with master’s degrees in Public Policy and Foreign Service from Georgetown University. After his military service, Christopher worked as a policy advisor and strategic problem-solver at the US Department of State and later in the private sector, guiding organizations through complex operational and leadership challenges. His career spans national security, diplomacy, corporate strategy, and a statewide political campaign, giving him a rare, firsthand perspective on how power operates within institutions. His debut book, You Shouldn’t Have to Kill to Get Ahead, draws on that experience to examine ambition, integrity, and the system…