Life Episodes

1,354 | Spenser Strickland on Beating Stage IV Cancer and Reclaiming His Voice Spenser Strickland is a dedicated Health and Life Insurance Specialist whose mission is rooted in one powerful truth: education and empathy save lives. Born and raised in Fort Worth, Texas, Spenser grew up surrounded by hardworking entrepreneurs who instilled in him the values of integrity, perseverance, and service. After attending Ole Miss, he spent over a decade in the Health and Wellness industry, where he honed his leadership skills and passion for helping others thrive. In January 2024, Spenser’s life changed dramatically when he was diagnosed with stage IV cancer. Multiple surgeries, including the removal of half his tongue, thirteen teeth, and a full neck dissection, followed by chemotherapy and radiation, left him fighting not just for his life but for his voice. By September 2024, he beat cancer. Through that battle, he uncovered something deeper: the devastating gaps in our healthcare an…

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…

1,302 | Nicholas Kemp Explains the Science and Spirit Behind Ikigai Nicholas Kemp is a keynote speaker, author, researcher, and founder of Ikigai Tribe, a global community of educators, psychologists, coaches, and trainers dedicated to teaching the true essence of ikigai—the Japanese concept of living a life worth meaning. He is the author of IKIGAI-KAN: Feel a Life Worth Living and holds a Diploma of Positive Psychology, blending science and philosophy to help individuals and organizations find purpose, fulfillment, and flow. Nick’s fascination with Japan began during a childhood trip to Tokyo, a spark that led him back years later for a traineeship with one of Japan’s largest restaurant chains and a decade of life-changing experiences there. Today, Nick continues to share his deep understanding of ikigai through speaking, writing, and coaching, inspiring people worldwide to live with clarity, joy, and intention. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love…

1,299 | Shari Ross Breaks Down the S.I.M.P.L.E.™ Method for Aging Decisions Shari Ross is the author of Senior Living Made S.I.M.P.L.E.™ and creator of the companion workbook and toolkit that guide families step-by-step through the senior living journey with confidence and clarity. As the founder of the Senior Living Made S.I.M.P.L.E.™ brand, she is known for turning complex decisions into empowering choices filled with compassion and purpose. An award-winning senior living sales specialist, Shari has spent over a decade helping hundreds of families navigate assisted living, memory care, and long-term planning. Her expertise has earned her national recognition as a featured podcast guest and speaker at leading conferences on aging and caregiving. A graduate of NYU and proud Southern California resident with East Coast roots, Shari brings both professional insight and personal experience as she supports her own aging parents while raising two young adults. Through her signa…

1,261 | How Jason Heinritz Found Freedom in God’s Kingdom I'm Jason Heinritz, I spent the first half of my adult life chasing success. I led one of the top-producing teams in the direct sales world, climbed the ranks, and did all the things that looked impressive on paper. But somewhere along the way, I realized I was building my own kingdom, not God’s. That realization broke me, and it also set me free. Over the last five years, I’ve been on a journey that may look like demotion in the world’s eyes but has been promotion in God’s Kingdom. I went from striving to surrender, from stress to Sabbath, from performance to presence. Along the way, I’ve learned a lot about faith, habits, leadership, and the deep joy that only comes from walking closely with Jesus. I created Wake Up Jesus People to help others do the same—to stop drifting and start living with boldness, peace, and purpose. Through my book, my faith-driven journal, and the 40 Forge Challenge, I equip believers to buil…

1,259 | The Heart and Soul of Neil Reed’s Wanderlusting Born and raised in between southern california and the east coast, Neil Reed was classically trained on piano as a child and exposed to music through boomer parents (the beatles, rolling stones, motown, 90s rock and classical). he was drawn to alternative music and hip-hop as he grew into adolescence and thru friends, always endlessly curious in his tastes. As he ventured into college and beyond, his love for music grew but never wavered thru the ups and downs. combining his sensitivity and search for meaning, he writes and explores the intimate and the personal on his first full project, Wanderlusting, hinting at themes of love and loss, loneliness and desire, fragility in chaos. this is his world. enjoy. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.instagram.com/reelneid 🎬 Need stunning videos, clean audio, or scroll-stopping designs? Check out our media services at …

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…

1,240 | Transforming Pain into Power with Rob Leonetti Rob Leonetti is a Certified Trauma Recovery Practitioner, Coach, and Resiliency Expert, and the founder of Hope Bridge Collective, LLC. He helps adults heal from developmental trauma and guides them toward a life of empowerment, authenticity, and purpose. Drawing from both personal experience and professional expertise, Rob offers a holistic, trauma-informed approach that bridges the mind and body for true healing. His work goes beyond traditional therapy or coaching—he creates a compassionate, peer-level space where clients feel seen, supported, and understood. Through his proven framework, Rob helps clients reclaim their agency, strengthen their resilience, and reconnect with their authentic selves so they can thrive personally and professionally—and truly build a life they love. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.hopebridgecollective.com/ 🎬 Need stunn…

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! …

1,231 | 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…

1,223 | 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…

1,143 | The Process of Living: Bill DeBarba on Business Wisdom, Problem Solving & Second Chances Bill DeBarba is a serial entrepreneur. He began the classic “back bedroom office” business, developing custom software for local companies. His company, BusinessWare Services, Inc. (BWSI), grew to the point where he had a staff developing products and providing services to a base of loyal customers nationwide. In his nearly 40 years of ownership and management, he achieved considerable success. One measure of that success is that, during those years, no customer ever resorted to legal action to resolve an issue. He learned how to recognize problems from others’ points of view. And he shared that knowledge in his book entitled The Process of Living. This publication explains how to manage the concepts of acknowledging thoughts, understanding feelings, and taking action. By effectively applying these functions in responding to difficult issues, he found the most efficient way to solve pro…

1,129 | Can Women Have It All? Dr. Kristen Cain on Fertility, Family & Doctoring Your Life I'm Kristen Cain, I am a double board-certified OBGYN and fertility physician in Atlanta and Charlotte and the #1 bestselling author of Doctoring Your Life: The Secret to Merging Medicine and Motherhood While Loving Your Life. My life's work is creating families, and my mission is helping professional women with young families love their lives. We hear that women must sacrifice either a great career, a happy family life, or their sanity. But can we have it all? In three years, I got married, moved cross-country, started a practice, took four board exams, had three children, and bought my first home. I relied on the wisdom of seasoned women doctors and the help of my husband and our nanny.I learned tips, tricks, and mindsets to enjoy my life and accomplish my goals. I wrote these tips down over the years, and they became this book, and a mission. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? …

1,120 | Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Amy L. Bernstein on Fear, Creativity & Owning Your Voice Amy L. Bernstein is an author, book coach, and former award-winning journalist who has walked with doubt her whole life. Even after earning awards for her Master's thesis and then her journalism, Amy couldn't quite call herself a writer. Doubt is a gift that keeps on giving. But Amy has learned that "doubt is fuel as well as foe," and she persists despite her doubt monsters. And now she’s determined to help others do the same. Her new book is Wrangling the Doubt Monster: Fighting Fears, Finding Inspiration. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://www.amywrites.live 🎬 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 comme…

1,104 | Honoring the Soul’s Language: Dr. Stacey Shelby on Dreams, Depth Psychology & Daily Meaning Stacey Shelby, Ph.D, is an author, speaker, educator, and depth psychotherapist. She is also a Registered Clinical Counselor (RCC) in Canada, a certified clinical dream tender, and she has studied in folk and yoga traditions. She is gifted at working with the symbolic language of the soul and she is dedicated to honoring soul as it presents in the lived experience of daily life. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎧 Love our show? Show some love! 👉 Check out today’s guest: https://drstaceyshelby.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 #Inspi…

1,038 | Transforming Lives & Leaders: Michael T. Brown on Mental Health & Empowerment Michael T. Brown, LPC (Licensed Professional Couselor) has been empowering individuals, families, businesses and communities with tremendous success, for over 20 years. Michael serves as the Principal of Browns’ Leadership Consulting, which provides counseling support to individuals and families; consulting services to organizations and businesses. Support our podcast show by: https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Affiliate(s): Lyric Vids - https://positivetalkradio.net/Lyricvids NordVPN - https://positivetalkradio.net/NordVPN Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/positivetalkradio/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@positivetalkradio?lang=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/positivetradio https://www.positivetalkradio.net/support/ 🎙️ New to streaming or looking to level up? Check out St…

1,006 | Parenting Chaos & Laughter: Nicholas Westerfer’s Hilarious Take on Fatherhood Nicholas Westerfer is a devoted father of two energetic daughters, Evangeline and Isabelle, and lives in sunny California. Balancing a full-time job with the joys and occasional chaos of family life, Nicholas navigates his days with the kind of grace one might expect from a walrus in a tutu. His passion for storytelling is deeply rooted in his experiences as a parent and the endless inspiration he finds within his lively, albeit bustling, household. Nicholas writes with a mix of humor and heart, striving to capture both the magic and the messiness of everyday life. His writing reflects the vibrant chaos and profound connections that come with raising a family and managing a busy schedule. Discover more about Nicholas and his writing journey at www.nickwesterfer.com and join him in exploring the adventures of a life brimming with love, laughter, and a few too many pets. Support our podcast…

983 | Lost & Found: A Soul-Searching Journey Across the World with Johanna Kovrig I’m Johanna Kovrig, and I’ve spent my life questioning what it truly means to be human. Ever since I can remember, I’ve felt different, like I was dropped off on the wrong planet. I’ve always been deeply sensitive, picking up on things others seemed to miss, and wondering why the world felt so overwhelming at times. That curiosity led me on a journey across different countries and careers, from teaching English in Spain and Hungary to working in Waldorf education in Scotland, and even providing elderly care in the UK. Every experience deepened my understanding of people, emotions, and the invisible undercurrents that shape our lives. But no matter where I went or what I did, one question kept tugging at me: Is there more to this life than meets the eye? Now, back in the “real world,” I continue to explore what it means to live as an empath, a dreamer, and a seeker in a fast-moving world. My jour…

Teresa Greco is a certified happiness life coach pursuing her Ph.D. in transpersonal psychology and inner happiness. She is a multiple-time TEDx speaker, 4X bestselling author, international writer, and editor of a Canadian lifestyle magazine. An educator of over 25 years and educational technologies consultant, Teresa is also the host of two Internet TV and radio shows. As a coach, reiki master, and spiritual guide, she holds workshops and mentors others about embracing, honouring, and loving their true authentic selves and achieving their own personal happiness and fulfillment. Support our podcast show by: https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Affiliate(s): Lyric Vids - https://positivetalkradio.net/Lyricvids NordVPN - https://positivetalkradio.net/NordVPN Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/positivetalkradio/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@positivetalkradio?lang=en Twitte…

Meryl is dedicated to helping others reach their fullest potential so they enjoy happier, healthier relationships, experience more joy in their lives, and follow their soul's purpose. Always on her own self-development journey led her to become a yoga teacher and discover the benefits of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques - aka tapping) and Optimal EFT. Support our podcast show by: https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Affiliate(s): Lyric Vids - https://positivetalkradio.net/Lyricvids NordVPN - https://positivetalkradio.net/NordVPN Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkradio Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/positivetalkradio/ TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@positivetalkradio?lang=en Twitter - https://twitter.com/positivetradio https://www.positivetalkradio.net/support/

Doug Lawrence is the founder of TalentC, a human resources solution provider. He also is author of The Gift of Mentoring. Doug has more than 35 years of mentoring and leadership experience in both the federal and provincial environments as well as the private sector. He was instrumental in developing a curriculum to train people on how to become effective mentors. Doug has also created an International Certification for Mentors. The curriculum and the designation are accredited by a third party and are ISO compliant. TalentC is the only accredited training organization that can deliver the International Certification for Mentoring program. The curriculum has been pre-approved as a recertification credit provider with numerous organizations in Canada and the United States. Doug is a Certified Mentor Practitioner and a Certified Mentor Facilitator. Support our podcast show by: https://www.positivetalkradio.net/support/ https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Patreon - patreon.com/positiveta…

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If you think you think then you are somewhat mistaken. Your thoughts mostly come from other sources, such as things you have read or were told. Your thoughts and opinions are assigned to you and then we passed along to others. These are the thoughts that are not from your OWN source and therefore, are not yours. This is unfortunate since your organic thoughts are clear. They are more of a knowing. They are your roadmap, your internal compass that provides you the peace you are longing for. In today’s climate it is all but impossible to have an original idea or an original thought that has not been tainted by outside influences. Meditation gives you the experience of hearing your soul speak. Don’t waste any more time and energy living the lives of other peoples imaginations. Instead, practice being free to choose to live the life that is specifically and uniquely meant for you. This freedom to live life on your own terms is not only necessary for you, but it is your responsibil…

Scott Bernard Nelson '94 spent 22 years as a journalist with some of the world’s largest media organizations before returning to Linfield in 2016. He was embedded with U.S. Marines during the invasion of Iraq, covered ground zero and New York's financial district during and after 9/11, attended and wrote about a Winter Olympic Games and contributed multiple stories to The Boston Globe's Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church, which spawned the movie “Spotlight.” Scott holds an MBA and a post-graduate certificate in finance, and assumed leadership positions at many of these media organizations. He is also a two-time Ironman triathlon finisher, 14-time marathon finisher, big-wall rock climber and avid fly fisherman, as well as an actor and whiskey reviewer. Support our podcast show by: https://www.positivetalkradio.net/support/ https://kmmedia.pro/our-store Patreon - patreon.com/positivetalkradio Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/positivetalkr…