Author Episodes

1,238 | Meghan Walsh Shares How to Lead with Purpose and Power Meghan Walsh is an empowered leadership coach, purpose-driven leader, and educator with over 18 years of experience in marketing, communications, and leadership development. She built a marketing department from the ground up for a Fortune 500 company and has led high-performing teams across diverse industries, driving business growth through data-driven strategies and engagement initiatives. Meghan is the author of Rare Birds: Dare to Break from the Flock and Find Your Purpose, where she shares her insights on breaking free from limitations and living in alignment and fulfillment. Beyond the corporate world, Meghan is dedicated to personal transformation and empowerment. A certified positive psychology practitioner, she also draws from her studies in druidism, shamanism, and energy healing to help individuals cultivate confidence, authenticity, and purpose. By blending strategic thinking with intuitive guidance,…

1,237 | From Struggle to Strength: Dana Priyanka Hammond’s Story Dana Priyanka Hammond is a Mental Health Paraprofessional by profession and the bestselling author of Amazon’s hot new release, “Tear the Veil” (Volume 2) co-authored with 18 fearless visionary leaders and a speaker. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://danapriyankahammond.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, 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 #Inspiration #Podcast ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1,236 | Stacy Schaffer on Helping Children Heal from Grief and Anxiety Stacy Schaffer, MA, LPC, a dedicated children’s therapist in Arvada, Colorado, has more than twenty years of experience. Specializing in grief and anxiety, she creates a safe space for healing. She loves surfing, kickboxing, reading, and quality time with friends and her golden retriever/ therapy dog, Willow. With Love from a Children's Therapist is her first book, and she hopes people feel both seen and heard in the pages. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://authorstacyschaffer.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, 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! …

1,234 | How to Inspire Commitment and Deep Connection with Valerie Greene Valerie Greene is a unique relationship mentor, author, and speaker who helps women to inspire their man to fulfill their deepest needs and desires. A highly successful alternative to relationship therapy, Valerie helps women and couples create a secure emotional CONNECTION--not just problem-solving or communication skills. Valerie holds numerous certifications in coaching, NLP, and emotional healing modalities. She leads workshops, retreats, and online courses for women and couples, and is the creator of the 12-week Man-ifest Lasting Love coaching program and the author of the book “The Commitment Roadmap” which teaches women how to inspire their man to commit to a lifetime of lasting love. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://coachvaleriegreene.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at …

1,231 | Rethinking Aging: Insights From Dr. Corinne Auman Dr. Corinne Auman is a recognized gerontologist with over 20 years of experience working directly with older adults and their families and the author of Keenagers: Telling a New Story about Aging She is a Nationally Certified Guardian, Certified Senior Advisor, and an Advanced Professional member of the Aging LifeCare Association. She received her Ph.D. from NC State University, where she studied developmental psychology with a specialty in adulthood and aging. Dr. Auman speaks to audiences about aging in America the real world impact of age bias. As a gerontologist with a profound commitment to making a difference, Dr. Auman continues to champion the cause of older adults and their families. Her multifaceted approach, encompassing caregiving, education, activism, and authorship, positions her as a true advocate for a new narrative around aging. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check…

1,230 | Building Stronger Teams With Paul Petera Paul Petera is a seasoned executive with over 30 years of experience in financial services and risk management, and an affinity for growing leadership and organizational culture. He’s spent his career helping individuals and teams grow by leading with intention and fostering a culture of continuous improvement. He is an advocate for elevating women in leadership. Paul's new book, Built on Purpose: Lessons in Leadership and Culture, is rooted in real-life lessons, personal stories, and cultural principles. It’s about becoming a more intentional, authentic leader by first understanding yourself—and then using that awareness to build stronger teams, healthier organizations and lasting impact. Whether you're leading a small group or a large enterprise, this book offers practical tools, reflection prompts and timeless wisdom to help you lead with clarity, character and purpose. Paul is a freelance writer, consultant, mento…

1,229 | Stories That Spark Wonder in Nature With Karen B. Shea Karen B. Shea is a best-selling author and passionate speaker dedicated to connecting the young and young at heart with the wonders of nature. With her deep love for the natural world, Karen brings the magic of nature to every story. As a dedicated advocate for nature, Karen emphasizes the importance of inviting nature into our daily lives and fostering a strong connection between children and the environment. Through vibrant characters and engaging adventures, her stories encourage both the young and young at heart to explore, appreciate, and protect the world around them. Karen’s love for nature began as a child growing up outside Chicago when there were still open fields and muddy marshes to explore. As a teen, her family bought a cabin in the wilds of Wyoming which opened her world up to endless mountains and a vast array of wildlife. As an adult, her love for nature drew her to the PNW where its lush landscape …

1,228 | Cheryl Stelte on Moving Beyond Emotional and Energetic Barriers Cheryl Stelte is a spiritual coach, master healer, speaker, and bestselling author of three transformative books. She is the founder and CEO of the Star of Divine Light Institute and creator of the Azarias Energy Healing Certification Program. With more than 30 years of experience in energy healing, spiritual leadership, coaching, shamanism, yoga, and meditation, Cheryl guides mature women who know they are meant for more but feel stuck. She helps them break free from subconscious blocks, move beyond emotional and energetic barriers, and step into their most authentic, powerful selves, especially when nothing else has worked. Through her proven methods, Cheryl empowers women to gain clarity, embrace their purpose, and create a life of freedom and fulfillment. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://starofdivinelight.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, cl…

1,227 | Success Mindsets: Ryan Gottfredson’s Blueprint for Better Leadership Ryan Gottfredson, Ph.D. is a renowned leadership development author, researcher, and consultant who helps organizations elevate their leaders by transforming how they think and operate. His groundbreaking work centers on vertical development and the power of mindsets to unlock greater effectiveness, agility, and impact. Ryan is the Wall Street Journal and USA Today best-selling author of Success Mindsets, The Elevated Leader, and Becoming Better. He also serves as a professor of leadership at California State University, Fullerton’s College of Business and Economics. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://ryangottfredson.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, coaches, and brands ready to le…

1,223 | Marilyn Raichle on Caregiving, Creativity, and Connection Marilyn Raichle, author of Don’t Walk Away, grew up in the shadow of Alzheimer’s. Nearly everyone in her father’s family and many in her mother’s developed the disease. Her mother Jean told her, “When we get Alzheimer’s, walk away. There is nothing you can do, so live your life and don’t sacrifice it for us.” Instead, Raichle became transformed, embracing the value and joy of people who are living with, not suffering from, dementia. Marilyn Raichle began her career in the performing arts. She founded the Seattle International Children’s Festival, introducing children to world culture through the performing arts. In 2007, she received a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government. Upon returning to Seattle, her career was upended when she became the family caregiver for her parents, both of whom were developing dementia. It was a rocky journey, at first reluctant an…

1,220 | How C.F. Micky Reclaimed Her Life After Abuse C.F. Micky is a survivor of a thirty-three-year narcissistic marriage. It took her six years in court trying to break free and gain back not just her freedom, but also her sovereignty. Since then, Caty has been busy recouping her strength, healing from the abuse, and moving forward to reclaim her life. She is looking forward to all that life has to offer. Through trials and tribulations, she has learned many lessons and is open to sharing them to help those who are trapped in the same abusive cycle. Caty lives on a grain-producing farm that is now operated by her son. She is a mother of two girls and a son, and is blessed with six grandchildren. She enjoys all aspects of farm life, from gardening, canning, yard work, to running the tractors, and hopes to pass this love on to her grandchildren and teach them the benefits of nutritional food. Caty's faith is strong and she believes in living life with pure, good intentions. ━━━━━…

1,216 | Dawn Marcotte on Navigating Life After Retirement Dawn Marcotte is a mom, marathon runner and reader of all things mystery. She is also an author, speaker and Certified Professional Retirement Coach. She loves to write about her passions and share what she has learned in life to help others overcome the obstacles in their life. Currently she is focused on saving the world, 1 retirement at a time, by helping others plan for the social, emotional and psychological changes that come with retirement. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: http://46656009.hs-sites.com/inspired-retirement-life 🎬 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 conv…

1,214 | Sayen Gates on Healing, Shadow Work, and Self-Discovery Sayen Gates is a passionate Shadow Life Coach, podcast host, best-selling author, and community-based doula devoted to guiding others through the deep, transformative work of healing, empowerment, and self-discovery. Raised in South Carolina, Sayen’s journey has been shaped by her own lived experiences, giving her a grounded, relatable, and compassionate approach to mental wellness, shadow work, and self-worth. Sayen is a contributing author of the Amazon best-seller Perspective on Cancer: Healing, Hope, and Resilience by Tim Sohn. In the book, she shares a powerful and intimate narrative that captures her resilience and courage in the face of life’s challenges. Her contribution offers a beacon of hope for those navigating grief, illness, trauma, or emotional recovery. She is also the creator and host of Shadow Corner, a podcast that explores the intersection of mental health, mindfulness, and emotional truth. Wi…

1,211 | Nathan Summers Teaches How Primal Wisdom Fuels Resilience and Leadership Nathan Summers is an author, survival skills expert, and global consultant who has dedicated his life to teaching the power of primal wisdom. He travels worldwide, working with schools, businesses, and organizations to unlock resilience, adaptability, and deeper human connection through ancient teachings. Nate’s mission is to help people rediscover the skills and mindset that foster true survival, leadership, and growth in today’s world. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nate-summers-216b604/ 🎬 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 inspiri…

1,208 | How Sabrina Trobak Helps People Break Free From “Not Good Enough” Beliefs Sabrina Trobak, based in Fort St. John, BC, Canada, is a registered clinical counsellor and author of Not Good Enough: Understanding Your Core Belief and Anxiety. She is also a clinical supervisor and public speaker with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology. Before founding her private practice, Sabrina spent over 20 years in education as a teacher, vice principal, and school counsellor across three school divisions. She brings extensive training and expertise in helping individuals address past trauma and its lasting effects, particularly anxiety and limiting core beliefs such as feeling not good enough, not important, or not valued. Through her agency, Trobak Holistic Counselling, Sabrina empowers individuals to identify, challenge, and transform these beliefs into a healthier mindset of being good enough, important, and valued. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some lov…

Larry G. Dix II is a bestselling author, entrepreneur, and mentor who has built businesses, led teams, and rebuilt himself through discipline and faith. From his early days working in the lumberyards to founding APEX, Larry has lived the grind of leadership and learned what it takes to rise above setbacks. As host of the Born or Made Podcast, he has interviewed hundreds of top entrepreneurs and leaders, exploring the question of whether greatness is innate or built. His life and work prove the answer: it’s built. When he’s not leading in business, Larry is a cattle rancher, real estate investor, marathon runner, and devoted family man. He is passionate about mentoring entrepreneurs and executives to scale with structure, discipline, and purpose, guided by his life code: Do What’s Right™ — in business, in life, in you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.larrygdix.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scr…

1,203 | How Rand Selig Helps People Thrive in Life and Business Rand Selig is an accomplished entrepreneur, coach, scoutmaster, board member, and roll-up-your-sleeves conservationist. With an MBA from Stanford and undergraduate degrees in mathematics and psychology, he excels at managing complex projects globally. He founded and has run The Selig Capital Group for over three decades. His firm was named the best sustainable investment banking firm in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2024 by Wealth and Finance International. He shares his extensive expertise in his book Thriving! How to Create a Healthier, Happier, and More Prosperous Life. You can read more at www.randselig.com. Rand is relentlessly positive and believes he can design his own life and others can, too. Based in Mill Valley, California, he enjoys life’s adventures with his wife of 44 years. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.randselig.com 🎬 Need stu…

1,199 | How Donavon Campbell Inspires Through Music, Writing, and Coaching Donavon Campbell was born in Jamaica and now lives in Canada with his family. He is a songwriter, singer, songwriting educator, author, presenter, and creativity and life coach. Passionate about using his gifts to inspire others, Donavon helps people through his talents, skillset, products, and services. Whether through music, teaching, writing, or coaching, his mission is to uplift others and create meaningful connections. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.dc-digital-products.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, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Like this video 💬 Drop a comment & share your favorite part 🔔 Subscribe for more inspiring conversations Monday to Frid…

1,198 | How Jesse Johnson Explores Humanity’s Future in His Novel Transcendents In support of his debut speculative fiction novel Transcendents, Jesse Johnson brings together 17 years of experience as a somatic counselor, his background as a high school and college distance running coach, and his recent equine-partnered coaching practice. His work weaves these experiences into a post-conquest philosophy of humanity and the future, offering fresh perspectives on resilience, connection, and what it means to move forward. Jesse Johnson lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife Clara, their son August, and their Bernese Retriever, Doug. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://jessekjohnson.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, coaches, and brands ready to level up. 👍 Lik…

1,197 | How Dr. Joseph Drolshagen Helps Leaders Unlock Rapid Growth With SMT Method™ Dr. Joseph Drolshagen - known as “The Rapid Growth Specialist” - is a nationally recognized business and mindset coach, author, and speaker. With a Doctorate in Psychology, nearly 30 years of corporate leadership experience, and over four decades of research into mindset and transformation, he developed the Subconscious Mindset Training (SMT) Method™ to help people achieve results faster and with lasting impact. Unlike generic coaching, Joseph’s SMT Method™ adapts to each individual. He helps entrepreneurs and professionals uncover limiting beliefs, replace self-sabotaging patterns, and build habits that align with their goals. The results include stronger businesses, renewed purpose, and rapid personal and professional growth. Joseph is the author of four books, including his newest release, Reprogramming Your Subconscious Mind: The SMT Method™ for RAPID Growth, available now on Amazon. Feat…

1,192 | How Liz Mugavero Turns Mystery, Cats, and Creativity Into Bestseller Magic Liz Mugavero is an author, editor, and strategic communications leader with extensive experience in internal and executive communications, as well as content strategy and creation. With over 20 years of expertise in journalism, strategic communications, and marketing, she has built and led high-performing teams, developed senior executive brands and crafted impactful internal and external communication strategies. A multi-published author, Liz writes under her own name and the pen name Cate Conte. She has published 19 books across three mystery series. As Liz, she created the Pawsitively Organic Mysteries, the first of which was an Agatha Award nominee. As Cate, she writes the Full Moon Mysteries and the Cat Cafe Mysteries, blending charming small-town settings, curious cats, and plenty of intrigue. When she’s not plotting her next whodunit, Liz helps fellow writers embrace their creativity throu…

1,188 | How Rich Kozak Helps Entrepreneurs Create Impact-Driven Brands Rich Kozak is The Voice of Impact Driven Branding. After decades of shaping and launching global brands, he founded RichBrands to serve heart-centered entrepreneurs and professionals who are ready to elevate their unique gifts and make lasting impacts with clarity, longevity, and divine purpose. At RichBrands, Rich personally guides individuals through the 7 Steps of Impact Driven Branding, helping them define and grow brands that are aligned with who they truly are and the difference they are meant to make. With 47 years of deep branding expertise and a reputation for straight talk you can trust, Rich is known as the most connecting, deeply listening, and caring branding expert you will ever meet. Beyond guiding brands, Rich also mentors clients in creating, writing, and publishing books that amplify their message and move their brand forward. His wisdom is simple yet transformative: Clarity for the impac…

1,186 | Chris Natzke Reveals How to Awaken True Leadership Chris Natzke, known as America’s Breakthrough Sensei, has been guiding people to discover their Inner Champion for more than four decades. A 9th Degree Black Belt, Master Instructor, and former national Taekwondo champion, he ranks among the top 1% of martial artists worldwide. Today, as a life-leadership coach, keynote speaker, and author, Chris shares his signature Black Belt Leadership principles to help others find clarity of purpose, confidence, and the courage to take inspired action. His teachings have transformed thousands of students, business professionals, and organizational leaders, leaving audiences empowered to create lives and careers of impact. Chris holds a bachelor’s degree in Communication Studies from Northwestern University, where he was a four-year football letterman, and a master’s in Spiritual Psychology from the University of Santa Monica. A former sales executive at Procter & Gamble, he blend…

1,185 | Christina Braver Reveals How She Writes Romance That’s “A Little Nerdy, A Little Dirty” Christina Braver is an author of steamy contemporary romance, often set in the Pacific Northwest. Her stories are character-driven with strong yet tender heroes, determined heroines, and the guaranteed happily-ever-after readers crave. With a master’s degree in clinical psychology, Christina blends her expertise with insights from leading sex therapists to craft novels described as “a little bit nerdy, a little bit dirty.” Her books deliver toe-curling spice, authentic relationship dynamics, and a celebration of sexual health and sex positivity. Based outside Seattle, she enjoys biking with her husband, laughing with friends, sipping wine, and of course, reading. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://christinabraver.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at http…