Empowering Episodes

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…

1,387 | Amy McKiernan Reveals How Survivors Rebuild With Confidence Amy McKiernan is the author of More Than A Survivor: Eight Keys to Overcoming Sexual Assault and Finding a Path to Living a Fulfilled Life, a transformative guide that empowers survivors to reclaim their voice, restore their strength, and build a life rooted in authentic peace. Through eight practical and courageous principles, Amy helps readers move beyond survival into clarity, confidence, and purpose. A passionate advocate for safety and dignity, Amy also speaks through Campus Outreach Services, delivering impactful programs to schools, universities, and organizations that promote respect, prevention, and community wellbeing. Her work equips audiences with tools to create safer, more supportive environments. Professionally, Amy serves as a Director of Employee Relations in the field of Education, where she fosters healthy workplace cultures through collaboration, accountability, and meaningful communicatio…

1,355 | Dr. James & Dr. Sylvia Boblak Shares Why Habits Matter More Than Prescriptions A Teaspoon of Wisdom is the wellness education arm of Health Made In America, founded by Doctors of Pharmacy James and Sylvia Boblak. After twenty-five years in community pharmacy, the husband-and-wife team saw firsthand how patients were often prescribed medications year after year without addressing root causes. Combining their Western pharmacy expertise with Ayurvedic and nutritional principles, they created A Teaspoon of Wisdom to empower individuals and families with clear, evidence-informed education before prescriptions or procedures become the default. Through online courses and private consultations, the Boblaks teach how simple, consistent habits—like mindful eating, quality sleep, and stress management—can build lasting health and resilience. Their signature programs, Wholesome Pregnancy and IRON-Y: The Truth About Iron, reflect their commitment to prevention over quick fixes,…

1,351 | Richard Jack III on Eliminating Drift and Leading With Precision Richard Jack III is an Alignment Coach & Strategist and the founder of the CEI Ecosystem™ (Clarity | Execute | Impact)—a performance framework that helps leaders and high-performing professionals align identity, decisions, and execution. His work focuses on eliminating drift, restoring clarity, and turning intention into consistent action. Earlier in his career, Richard founded Gentlemen By Choice and Ladies By Choice, youth development organizations that reached over 1,200 students across four states. That experience shaped his conviction that alignment—not motivation—is the true foundation of lasting change. Today, Richard empowers individuals and organizations to move with clarity, precision, and purpose—creating impact by design, not by default. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.rj3consultant.com/ 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audi…

1,337 | Jacqueline Pirtle on Awakening Your Inner Spark Jacqueline Pirtle is the joy-obsessed energy expert behind FreakyHealer, bestselling author of over 18 transformational books, and the go-to guide for shifting from “meh” to magnetic. With 30 years of experience in energy healing, Jacqueline makes deep transformation feel fun, easy, and wildly empowering. She teaches people how to understand, align with, and elevate their energy to create a life that actually feels good—not someday, but today. Through her books, journals, and energetic tools, Jacqueline has helped thousands around the world awaken their inner spark, raise their vibration, and step into a life filled with happiness, purpose, and flow. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://freakyhealer.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 agen…

1,336 | Stephanie Lincoln on Overcoming Fear When Everything Goes Wrong Stephanie Lincoln is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Army Veteran, and author of Born to Be Brave—a gripping true story of survival, resilience, and the unbreakable human spirit. In August 2020, what began as a short hike in Washington’s Olympic National Forest turned into a life-or-death battle when Stephanie went missing in the wilderness. Told with humor, grit, and honesty, her story reveals how every challenge in her life prepared her for that defining moment—and how courage, faith, and self-belief can carry us through the impossible. Today, Stephanie serves as an embedded behavioral health provider at Joint Base Lewis-McChord and runs a private practice offering mental health and wellness coaching. She continues to inspire others through her story, helping people discover their own inner strength and resilience. Based in South Seattle with her husband and two dogs, Stephanie is still an avid h…

1,330 | Matteo Esposito on Turning Autism Into Artistic Purpose Matteo Esposito is an Autistic playwright, props designer, actor, and singer-songwriter from Canada whose work celebrates creativity, inclusion, and the transformative power of theatre and music. His acclaimed play Sorting It Out has been produced seven times across North America, including a successful Off-Off-Broadway run in 2023, produced by Jon L. Peacock of Play Readings with Friends. Matteo also designed the props for the production and later reprised his original role as Nick Kinderwood in the 2024 Richmond Hill, Ontario performance to a sold-out audience. Dedicated to inspiring others through art, Matteo uses theatre as a teaching tool and is now expanding his creative expression into magic and illusion—reminding audiences that life, like art, is full of wonder and unseen possibilities. For Matteo Esposito, creativity isn’t just performance—it’s purpose. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Sho…

1,326 | Debbie Weiss Reveals How to Start Over at Any Age Debbie Weiss is a bestselling author, speaker, and creator of The Sprinkle Effect™—a method that helps women rediscover themselves and rebuild their lives after caregiving, loss, or major life changes. After more than forty years as a family caregiver, Debbie experienced a powerful awakening at fifty: her life wouldn’t change unless she did. That realization sparked a journey of self-discovery and transformation that continues to inspire women everywhere. When she became a widow at fifty-nine, the strength she had cultivated through The Sprinkle Effect™ gave her the courage to keep growing and to empower others to do the same. Featured on The Kelly Clarkson Show and in MSN Magazine as one of the Top 10 Leading Speakers to Follow in 2025, Debbie is also the author of On Second Thought… Maybe I Can! and The Sprinkle Effect: A Guide to Creating a More Colorful and Fulfilling Life. Through her podcast Maybe I Can, an…

1,310 | Tracy Smaldino Shares How Trauma Rock Stars Helps People Heal Tracy Smaldino is the creator and host of Trauma Rock Stars, a podcast where real stories of resilience, courage, and transformation take center stage. A survivor of childhood trauma and adversity, Tracy has turned her pain into purpose by creating a safe space for others to share, heal, and rediscover their strength. With honesty, humor, and heart, she leads powerful conversations that remind every listener they are not alone in their journey. Her mission is to empower survivors to rise, reconnect, and reclaim their voices—because healing is loud, courageous, and meant to be shared. Trauma Rock Stars: where stories heal and hope begins. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.youtube.com/@TraumaRockStars 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tier quali…

1,309 | Linda Lysakowski Shares 40 Years of Fundraising and Leadership Wisdom Linda Lysakowski, ACFRE, MTS-FT, CNC, CNE, CDE is one of just over one hundred professionals worldwide to hold the prestigious Advanced Certified Fund-Raising Executive designation. With more than forty years of experience in nonprofit development, she has guided countless organizations through successful capital campaigns, trained over 100,000 professionals across the U.S. and abroad, and helped shape the future of modern philanthropy. A prolific author, Linda has written or contributed to more than three dozen books on fundraising, nonprofit leadership, and faith-based service, including The Development Plan, Capital Campaigns in the Digital Age, and The Pastor’s Guide to Stewardship and Philanthropy. Her publications have become trusted resources for leaders across the nonprofit world. Linda’s distinguished career has earned her numerous honors, including the Outstanding Fundraising Executive awa…

1,297 | Elizabeth Gould Shows How High Achievers Reach Their Next Level Elizabeth Gould is an acclaimed contrarian thought leader, bestselling author, and speaker known for inspiring high achievers to redefine success from the inside out. Recognized by Randi Zuckerberg as a founding member of her leadership institute and endorsed by Tony Robbins for her book Feeling Forwards, Elizabeth blends neuroscience, mindset mastery, and emotional intelligence to help others reach their next level—and stay there. With a background spanning law, management consulting, and executive recruitment, Elizabeth rebuilt her life after cancer to fulfill her true purpose as a writer, mentor, and visionary. Her work empowers others to align thought, purpose, and behavior to create lasting transformation from within. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.elizabethgould.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check ou…

1,291 | Connie Salgado Reveals the Secrets to Natural, Lasting Wellness Connie Salgado is a holistic health practitioner, footzonologist, and founder of Wellness Made Easy with Connie, an online course designed to help people reclaim their health naturally. Her passion for wellness began early, inspired by her father’s health struggles and her own battle with chronic pain, fatigue, and recurring infections. Determined to understand the root causes of illness, not just treat the symptoms, Connie embarked on a lifelong journey of learning, self-healing, and holistic discovery. After transforming her own health through the principles of Footzonology, detoxification, and Medical Medium teachings, Connie now helps others find freedom from pain, restore vitality, and embrace lasting wellness through practical, natural methods. She offers in-person sessions in the San Francisco Bay Area, Portland, and Southern Utah, as well as virtual consultations for clients everywhere. Conn…

1,279 | Dr. LaSharnda Beckwith Shows What Faith-Driven Leadership Looks Like Dr. LaSharnda Beckwith is a visionary leader, author, and faith-driven CEO whose mission is to ignite transformation through service, empowerment, and purpose. As President and Chief Executive Officer of Lutheran Social Services, she leads nearly 200 employees across 16 offices and six counties, driving real change for vulnerable individuals, families, and communities. A former Provost and Chief Academic Officer at California Southern University and a 27-year executive veteran of the Army & Air Force Exchange Service, Dr. Beckwith blends business strategy with heart-centered leadership. Her lifelong work through Professional Christian Women in Service and other empowerment programs reflects her unwavering commitment to faith, equity, and impact. At her core, Dr. Beckwith believes in turning compassion into action and leadership into legacy—transforming lives one community at a time. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━…

1,275 | Melissa Lee Parent Unlocks the Power of Raw, Real Healing Melissa Lee Parent is a combat veteran, international best-selling author, endurance athlete, and the unapologetic voice behind The Cussing Coach. With a Master’s in Clinical Counseling, she blends therapy, Reiki, energy healing, and real-life grit to help people break free from trauma and rise into their power. Her work is grounded in lived experience—from surviving a near-death moment that left her millimeters from paralysis to overcoming childhood trauma and the battles of military life. Melissa combines clinical expertise with intuitive healing to guide others through pain, toward purpose, and into freedom. Authentic, raw, and relentless in her mission, she teaches that healing is not about perfection. It is about reclaiming every part of who you are and standing unapologetically in your truth. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://themelissaleepa…

1,268 | How to Heal Anxiety and Grief at the Root with Naomi Morad Naomi Morad is a trauma-informed psychosomatic practitioner with more than 23 years of experience guiding people through deep emotional and physical healing. She helps clients uncover and resolve the root causes of pain, trauma, and limiting patterns using body–brain-based approaches such as Brainspotting, Parts Work, and Inner Child Healing. Her integrative work supports those navigating complex trauma, anxiety, depression, grief, sexual abuse, attachment wounds, and chronic pain. With profound compassion and insight, Naomi creates a safe and empowering space for transformation, helping clients release what no longer serves them and reconnect with their authentic wholeness. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: www.naomimorad.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at https://www.kmmedia.pro/ — Top-tie…

1,264 | From Pain to Purpose: Melissa Lujan’s Story of Healing Melissa Lujan is a 44-year-old mother of three sons, a survivor of domestic violence, and a passionate advocate for healing and hope. Through the power of storytelling, she uses her voice to reach both survivors and those currently navigating difficult relationships, offering encouragement, empathy, and strength. Since 2009, Melissa has worked in the medical field, where her heart for service truly shines. She holds certifications as a CHT, CCHT, CNA, phlebotomist, and OSHA safety officer. Her compassion and ability to care for others are not just professional skills; they are gifts shaped by life’s hardest battles. Melissa believes that through every painful moment, God was refining her purpose. Today, she stands as a testament to resilience, empowered by faith, and driven to help others discover their own strength. Her mission is simple: to help every reader or listener feel seen, understood, and reminded that t…

1,256 | Ben Stein Reveals How to Build a Fulfilling Career Ben Stein is an executive and career coach who helps mid‑ to senior‑level professionals break free from autopilot and build purposeful, fulfilling work lives. After a remarkable shift from a VP role in New York - where he felt outward success but inner emptiness - Ben committed to coaching, completing intensive training in NLP, mindset work, and RIM facilitation. Over the past few years, he’s guided hundreds of clients to gain clarity, leave unfulfilling roles, start new businesses, and land better jobs at companies like Meta, Oracle, Microsoft, and Visa, all while improving their balance, pay, and impact. When he isn’t coaching, Ben is a devoted husband and father, an avid tennis player, and a world traveler. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.purposeup.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at h…

1,252 | Asher Lester Reveals the Secret to Unshakable Mental Strength Asher Lester is deeply committed to the pursuit of both mental and physical fitness. A Krav Maga instructor and 3rd Degree Black Belt, he has also received formal training in Jiu-Jitsu and Muay Thai. In addition, Asher is a certified breathing and meditation coach, holding ten certifications in those disciplines. He is also a certified CrossFit coach and ISSA-certified fitness professional. Asher is a certified Mental Toughness Coach through Krav Maga Worldwide and spent 18 years working in the field of Behavior Analysis. He actively seeks out opportunities to test his limits, having completed the Bataan Memorial Death March six times—an achievement that reflects his dedication to resilience and endurance. Driven by a passion for helping others live their best lives, Asher Lester empowers individuals to master what he calls the five mountains: physical, mental, emotional, spiritual, and intuitive fitness. …

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…

1,178 | Dr. Thando Sibanda Reveals How to Lead With Divine Purpose Dr. Thando Sibanda is a dynamic executive coach, international speaker, pastor, and leadership consultant known for empowering people to live with purpose, lead with clarity, and grow in their spiritual walk. With a deep passion for spiritual formation and kingdom leadership, Dr. Thando brings over 15 years of global experience helping individuals, churches, and organizations align their vision with divine destiny. Holding a PhD in Leadership & Management and certifications in Neuroscience & Coaching, he uniquely blends biblical wisdom with breakthrough science to equip believers for real transformation—spirit, soul, and strategy. Through his ministry and coaching programs, he has become a trusted voice for those navigating life’s transitions, building high-impact teams, and pursuing a deeper relationship with God. His latest books, The Fasting Advantage and The Fasting Companion, offer a practical roadmap to …

1,154 | Answer the Call: David Alan Brown on Inner Voices, Personal Power & Living with Intention David Alan Brown has been teaching personal empowerment, leadership, organizational development, self discovery and spirituality to audiences across the country for more than thirty years. He is the author of many books, including Answer the Call: What to do when Spirit arrives to transform your life! and The Self-Help Paradox. He frequently leads classes and services at progressive congregations, including more than a decade of service at New Thought Unity Center of Cincinnati and churches from Florida to Minnesota, Arizona to New York. He also facilitates and consults for corporations and nonprofit organizations, leading programs on leadership, culture, authenticity, presentation skills and staff development. David holds a BFA from New York University, is a fan of auto racing, writes and evaluates live theater, and coaches writers and storytellers. His most recent publication is an…

1,137 | Dr. Hank Seitz on Mindset Miracles, Abundance & Unlimited Possibility Dr. Hank Seitz is a mental scientist who helps others become happier and more successful! He has written 24 books on the subject including "Easy Money, Easy Life", and "Think, FEEL & Grow Rich!" He has helped Fortune 100 Companies around the world, and thousands of people become their greatest possibility! He has a time proven process that helps anyone who want more wealth, better health and a better more abundant Life! Dr. Hank used this proven process on himself when involved in a major car accident where the doctors declared him permanently paralyzed from the waist down. He is now a walking miracle and shows others how they can be a walking miracle and have Life the way they want it! ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.DrHankSeitz.com 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services…

1,103 | What Do Your Goals SMELL Like? Steve Gamlin on Visualization, Positivity & Taking Action What do your Goals SMELL LIKE? Steve Gamlin blends Positivity, Visualization & Humor, teaching his clients to SEE their desired outcomes, understand their WHY, and build ACTION PLANS to achieve them. Bottom line: Steve teaches the MINDSET to identify what your goals LOOK like, FEEL like, SOUND like, TASTE like and yes...even SMELL like. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: http://SteveGamlinSpeaker.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 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

1,098 | Redefining Strength in Midlife: Liz Rodriguez on Healing, Confidence & Sustainable Fitness Liz Rodriguez is a board-certified health and wellness coach who helps former athletes in their 40s break free from all-or-nothing patterns and rebuild strength, energy, and confidence through her Strength & Longevity Method. After years of chasing performance and perfection, a major back surgery became the turning point in her own fitness journey — and her identity. Now, she combines mindset coaching with smart, sustainable training, nutrition, and recovery strategies to help women reconnect with their bodies and redefine what strength looks like in midlife. While her work is rooted in supporting high-achieving former athletes, her deeper mission is to make health and fitness more accessible, compassionate, and empowering — no matter your age, background, or ability. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://lizrodriguezc…