Episodes

Nancy Deyo on Finding Strength Through Pain | 1,535 Nancy Deyo spent years leading companies, solving complex problems, and operating at the highest levels of business. Then one injury changed everything. After a spinal injury on Mount Kilimanjaro, the former Silicon Valley CEO found herself facing a battle no amount of intelligence, determination, or professional success could solve. Chronic pain dismantled the life she had built, forcing her to confront not only physical suffering, but the loss of identity that comes when the person you've always been can no longer function the same way. For fifteen years, Nancy navigated chronic illness, opioid dependence, failed treatments, and the uncertainty that so many pain sufferers know all too well. She searched everywhere for answers, from leading medical experts to unconventional healing modalities, only to discover that the greatest transformation would come not from finding a cure, but from redefining what it meant to live. …

Victoria Cerminaro on From Burnout to True Wellness | 1,534 Victoria Cerminaro is redefining what healing looks like in a world obsessed with quick fixes. A Board Certified Holistic Nutritionist, educator, and writer, Victoria helps people move beyond the exhausting cycle of chasing perfect health and reconnect with a more sustainable, compassionate approach to well being. Her work was born from personal experience. After years of navigating her own health challenges, burnout, and the frustration of doing everything "right" while still feeling unwell, she discovered that true healing is rarely about doing more. It is about understanding yourself better. Drawing from more than 15 years in the natural wellness space, Victoria combines evidence based nutrition with nervous system support, self awareness, and a refreshing belief that our struggles do not make us broken. They often reveal our greatest strengths. Through her teaching and writing, she encourages people to stop…

Lauretta Zucchetti on Reinventing Life and Rising Beyond Your Past | 1,533 Lauretta Zucchetti is a speaker and transformation advocate whose life reflects what it means to rise beyond conditioning and reclaim your identity. Raised in Italy in an environment where her voice was meant to be small, Lauretta experienced early hardship, instability, and the weight of limiting beliefs about what a woman should accept. By her teenage years, she was navigating life on her own, forced to grow up quickly and make decisions that would shape her future. Choosing a different path, she left to reunite with her father, and later made a bold move to the United States, where she began rebuilding her life from the ground up. Within a short time, she rose to become one of the top sales performers at Xerox, then expanded her career with Apple Computer International, working globally and eventually leading and training teams across the country. Through every stage, Lauretta came to understand …

William J. Allen Jr on Second Chances That Change Lives | 1,532 William J. Allen Jr. has dedicated his life to helping people write a new chapter, no matter how difficult their previous chapters may have been. A U.S. Army and Air Force veteran and founder of New Chapter Life Coaching, William brings more than three decades of frontline experience within the criminal justice system to a mission that extends far beyond corrections. His work is centered on helping justice involved individuals break free from destructive patterns, rebuild their character, and create lives defined by purpose rather than their past. Over the course of his career with the Michigan Department of Corrections, William served in multiple roles, including Corrections Officer, Prisoner Counselor, Probation Officer, and Internal Affairs Investigator. These experiences gave him a rare perspective on both the challenges people face and the factors that truly lead to lasting change. Today, through coaching…

How Christopher Bylone Builds Real Workplace Belonging | 1,531 Christopher Bylone is on a mission to prove that belonging is more than a workplace initiative. It is a human need. As the founder of Innovation Unbiased and host of the podcast I Know I Belong When..., Christopher brings together data, storytelling, and lived experience to spark meaningful conversations about identity, inclusion, and human connection. His work challenges organizations and individuals alike to move beyond performative efforts and build cultures where people genuinely feel seen, valued, and empowered. A cancer survivor, advocate, and corporate leader, Christopher has spent years shaping belonging strategies for global organizations, leading multimillion dollar initiatives, strengthening employee communities, and helping transform workplace culture from the inside out. But his commitment to belonging did not begin in the boardroom. It began with a belief that everyone deserves a place where they …

Matthew Fornaro on Avoiding Costly Business Mistakes | 1,530 Matthew Fornaro helps business owners navigate legal challenges before they become costly problems. With more than two decades of experience serving businesses throughout South Florida, Matthew has built a reputation for providing clear, practical legal counsel in areas where entrepreneurs often need it most, contracts, disputes, negotiations, risk management, and business growth. Rather than overwhelming clients with legal jargon, he focuses on helping business owners make confident, informed decisions that protect what they have built and position them for long term success. Whether advising startups taking their first steps or established companies managing complex business issues, Matthew brings a strategic mindset that balances legal protection with real world business objectives. His philosophy is straightforward: the best legal strategy is not just about solving problems. It is about helping businesses …

Bari Sue Levin on Turning Anxiety Into Confidence | 1,529 Bari Sue Levin Abedon helps people transform anxiety into confidence by reconnecting them with the wisdom already within them. Founder of DEVAYA YOGA™, the Yoga of Color and Sound, Bari blends breathwork, visualization, movement, and sound to help people regulate their nervous systems, rebuild self trust, and access a deeper sense of peace and empowerment. Her work is deeply personal. Born prematurely and challenged by health struggles and overwhelm early in life, Bari embarked on a journey of healing that took her across cultures and into the study of ancient practices that would ultimately transform her relationship with herself. Today, as a life coach, retreat leader, and Kripalu certified yoga teacher, she guides others through experiences designed to quiet anxiety, awaken confidence, and create lasting inner change. Through her retreats and trainings in Costa Rica, Bari combines practical tools with timeless wi…

Dr Alison Pattison on Turning Vision Into Action | 1,528 Dr. Alison Pattison thrives at the intersection of education, leadership, entrepreneurship, and advocacy. As a professor, Senior Doctoral Chair at Grand Canyon University, entrepreneur, podcast host, speaker, and advocate, she has dedicated her career to helping people turn ideas into impact. Her work spans health and human services, leadership development, higher education, and developmental disability advocacy, all connected by a common mission: empowering others to create meaningful change. Known for her ability to bridge academic excellence with real world application, Dr. Pattison mentors emerging leaders, researchers, and professionals who want to make a difference in their communities and industries. Whether guiding doctoral candidates, launching innovative projects, or leading conversations that inspire growth, she brings a unique blend of strategic thinking, compassion, and vision. At her core, Dr. Pattison …

Dr Brandi Hawk on Helping Kids Thrive After Trauma | 1,527 Dr. Brandi Hawk is helping transform the way families, clinicians, and communities understand healing, connection, and resilience. A licensed clinical psychologist and CEO of Red Leaf Psychology, Dr. Hawk combines clinical expertise with a deep commitment to making evidence based mental health care more accessible and effective. Her work focuses on helping children, parents, and professionals navigate the lasting effects of trauma while building stronger, healthier relationships. As co developer of Parent Child Care (PC-CARE), an innovative evidence based parenting intervention, she has helped shape approaches used by clinicians and families around the world. She is also a sought after trainer and speaker, educating professionals nationally and internationally on trauma treatment, parenting interventions, chronic pain, and the profound impact of childhood experiences on lifelong well being. Whether in the therapy r…

Kenny Stoddart helps leaders master the one variable that determines performance under pressure: their own mind. As the founder of IronMind Advisors, he works with executives, founders, and high level operators whose decisions carry real consequences. His focus is not on motivation or productivity, but on strengthening judgment, emotional discipline, and clarity when conditions become chaotic. Through the IronMind Mentality, Kenny helps leaders eliminate internal noise, sharpen decision making, and maintain control when pressure is highest. Because at the highest level, success is rarely limited by talent. It is determined by who can think clearly when everything is on the line. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conversation! 👉 Today’s guest: www.ironmindadvisors.com 🎬 Need standout video, podcast, or branding content? 🌐 www.positivetalkproductions.com 📡 Listen on BLEAV:https://bleav.com/shows/positive-talk-radio/ 🍎 Apple Podcast:https://podcas…

How Grace Liu Helps Women Find Their Voice | 1,525 Grace C.W. Liu helps women reclaim the parts of themselves they were taught to silence. As a Woman's Truth Awakener, speaker, and communication strategist, Grace has dedicated her work to helping women break free from a lifetime of shrinking, pleasing, and second-guessing themselves. After more than twenty years as a speech language pathologist, she recognized that the greatest communication barrier was rarely vocabulary, confidence, or skill. It was the invisible conditioning that taught women to stay agreeable, stay quiet, and stay small. Today, Grace challenges that conditioning. Grace guides women toward a different kind of confidence, one rooted not in performance, but in self trust. The confidence to speak the uncomfortable truth. To set boundaries without guilt. To express needs without apology. To be fully seen without editing themselves to make others comfortable. Her mission is simple but profound: helping wo…

How Kathleen Bradford Brings Imagination to Life | 1,524 Kathleen Bradford writes at the meeting point of imagination and reality. Author. Storyteller. Creator of multi-dimensional worlds. A lifelong writer, Kathleen has been crafting stories since childhood, guided by curiosity, intuition, and a deep love for language. Her work blends fantasy with emotional truth, building worlds that feel both otherworldly and deeply human. She writes without knowing exactly where the story will go, trusting the unfolding of each page to reveal itself naturally. An avid stargazer and observer of life’s quiet complexity, she draws inspiration from nature, family, and the wonder found in everyday discovery. Her storytelling is shaped by compassion, imagination, and a belief in the power of open minds and open hearts. She is the author of The Gateways series, The Light Worker, The Shadow Chasers, Song of Dragons, and the upcoming The Fall of Darkness. Her work has received Readers’ Favor…

How Victoria Volk Helps You Live Again After Loss | 1.523 Victoria Volk helps people move from surviving to truly living again. Founder of The Unleashed Heart, LLC. Grief recovery specialist. Author. Coach. Energy practitioner. End-of-life doula. Her work is rooted in one core truth: grief is not something to “get over.” It is something to move through with support, awareness, and tools that honor the full human experience. Through evidence-based grief programs, life-path coaching, distance healing, and her podcast Grieving Voices, Victoria creates space for people navigating loss to reconnect with meaning, stability, and inner strength. Her approach blends structure with intuition, science with holistic practice, and guidance with deep compassion. She supports those who feel stuck in survival mode to gently rebuild a sense of direction, identity, and possibility. Because healing does not mean forgetting. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conve…

How Kim Chatman Helps Women Find Purpose Again | 1,522 Kim Chatman helps women rediscover who they are after life changes everything. Transformational life and health coach. Former Registered Nurse. Advocate for purpose-driven women living with chronic illness. After a 20-year nursing career, chronic illness forced Kim into an unexpected chapter marked by loss, uncertainty, and the painful unraveling of identity. But what followed was not surrender. It was a 14-year journey of rebuilding from the inside out. Through deep personal transformation and advanced training in Women-Centered coaching, Kim discovered that healing is not always dramatic. Sometimes it begins quietly, in the moment a woman decides her story is not over. Today, Kim guides women who feel stuck, unseen, or disconnected from themselves toward a new sense of purpose, confidence, and possibility. Her work is about more than coping with change. It is about reclaiming power, rebuilding identity, and creati…

Courtney Freeman on Living a Life That Feels Real | 1,522 Courtney Freeman is the voice behind The Unbroken Blueprint, a platform centered on helping people stop performing a life that looks successful and start building one that actually feels true. Her work speaks to high functioning individuals who appear capable, dependable, and self aware on the outside, yet quietly feel disconnected from themselves underneath it all. Through honest conversations and grounded insight, Courtney explores what it means to move beyond survival patterns, people pleasing, and performance driven living into something more aligned, steady, and real. At the core of her message is a powerful shift. Less force. More alignment. Less performance. More truth. Through her podcast and conversations around identity, self trust, emotional patterns, and relationships, Courtney encourages people to examine the roles they have outgrown and reconnect with who they actually are beneath expectations and cond…

Howaida Abdalla on Reclaiming Power After Survival | 1,521 Howaida Abdalla turned survival into purpose. Life coach. Advocate. Voice for healing and empowerment. Through lived experience, resilience, and unwavering compassion, Howaida helps survivors reclaim their identity, rebuild confidence, and move beyond the pain that once defined them. Her work creates space for honest conversations, deep healing, and the kind of transformation that begins when people finally feel seen, heard, and believed. Alongside her coaching and advocacy, she is deeply committed to raising awareness around the long-term emotional impact of FGM, challenging stigma, and helping communities better understand the realities survivors carry long after the silence ends. Her message reaches beyond survival. It is about reclaiming power, restoring dignity, and choosing a future on your own terms. Healing is possible. Your story matters. And your life belongs to you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enj…

Stephanie Wise on What Healthy Relationships Require | 1,520 Stephanie Wise helps people transform relationships from the inside out. Licensed therapist. Relationship coach. Writer. Educator. Speaker. Her work is built on one belief: healthy relationships are not sustained by intention alone. They are built through daily habits, honest communication, emotional awareness, and the willingness to show up differently when it matters most. Through therapy, coaching, teaching, and public speaking, Stephanie turns complex emotional insight into practical tools people can actually use in real life. Whether working with couples, parents, or individuals, her approach is grounded, direct, and deeply human. No empty advice. No relationship performance. Just real connection built through consistent action. Because love is not just something you feel. It is something you practice. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conversation! 👉 Today’s guest: www.offic…

Thomas Wurm on Healing What You Were Taught to Hide | 1,519 Thomas Wurm walked through the fire and came back with a new understanding of healing. Former wildland firefighter. Trauma recovery guide. Practitioner of deep transformational work. After 14 years on the front lines, Thomas knew what it meant to survive under pressure while silently carrying chronic stress, physical pain, and emotional wounds buried beneath resilience. What changed his life was not another coping mechanism. It was discovering the root. Through neuroscience, somatic healing, energy work, and Mental and Emotional Release®, Thomas found a path that transformed more than symptoms. It transformed identity, self-worth, and the patterns passed down through generations. Today, he guides others through the same process with a grounded, powerful approach that bridges science, psychology, and ancient healing practices. His mission is clear: help people break free from the cycles they were taught to survi…

Chris Bingham on Leadership Loyalty and K9 Partnership | 1,518 Chris Bingham stands at the intersection of service, discipline, and loyalty. Law enforcement leader. K9 advocate. Mentor. With more than two decades in policing and leadership, Chris has dedicated his life to protecting others while building elite K9 programs grounded in trust, precision, and purpose. A graduate of Northwestern University School of Police Staff and Command, his work extends far beyond the badge. He is widely recognized for the powerful bond he shares with his retired partner, K9 Tambo, whose journey of resilience became a symbol of courage, recovery, and unwavering loyalty. Through public speaking, storytelling, and advocacy, Chris shines a light on the lasting impact of working dogs and the responsibility owed to them long after service ends. Driven by discipline, fatherhood, fitness, and perseverance, Chris uses his platform to remind people that strength is not built through comfort. It …

Chad Coe on Building Wealth Through Trust and Strategy | 1,517 Chad Coe doesn’t build transactions. He builds trust. Wealth strategist. Master auctioneer. Author. Relationship-driven leader. Known as a force of nature in business and on stage, Chad Coe brings intensity, conviction, and human connection into every room he enters. As the founder of Coe Financial Group, his philosophy is simple: people come before profit, and lasting wealth is built through strategy, resilience, and authentic relationships. Through his books, leadership training, and financial guidance, Chad challenges people to think bigger, lead stronger, and build lives with purpose behind the success. Because real abundance is never accidental. It’s built with vision, discipline, and the right people beside you. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conversation! 👉 Today’s guest: www.coefinancial.com 🎬 Need standout video, podcast, or branding content? 🌐 www.positivetalkproduct…

Janus Valeo on Breaking Patterns Before They Break You | 1516 Janus Valeo studies the roots before the ruin. Author. Songwriter. Founder of Break the Pattern, NOW! His work explores the hidden architecture of human behavior, early childhood conditioning, intergenerational trauma, identity, and the patterns that quietly shape lives long before consequences appear. Through writing, music, and difficult conversations, he challenges surface-level narratives and pushes toward something deeper: prevention, accountability, and transformation. No performance. No empty motivation. Just clarity about where cycles begin and what it takes to break them. Strong roots create safer lives. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Enjoying the show? Support the conversation! 👉 Today’s guest: www.breakthepatternnow.org 🎬 Need standout video, podcast, or branding content? 🌐 www.positivetalkproductions.com 📡 Listen on BLEAV:https://bleav.com/shows/positive-talk-radio/ 🍎 Apple Podcasts:https://p…

Kenny Stoddart on Mental Discipline for Leaders | 1,515 Kenny Stoddart operates in the space where leadership is no longer theoretical. Where pressure compresses time, uncertainty clouds judgment, and the quality of a person’s thinking becomes the difference between collapse and control. As the founder of IronMind Advisors, Kenny works with executives, founders, and high level operators who are expected to perform when conditions are unstable and the stakes are real. His work is not centered on inspiration, productivity hacks, or surface level mindset language. It is about mental command. The ability to remain clear, disciplined, and decisive when most people default to reaction. What Kenny identified through years alongside elite performers is that pressure does not create weakness. It exposes it. The issue is rarely intelligence or capability. It is internal interference, emotional static, fractured focus, and the gradual erosion of precision under sustained demand. The …

Mandy Inglis on Fascia and Emotional Healing | 1,514 Mandy Inglis is a fascia and nervous system coach, founder of Innerstellar, and creator of Student of Life, helping high functioning individuals break free from the patterns keeping them stuck in cycles of stress, pressure, and burnout. After spending 16 years in education, Mandy reached a point many driven people quietly experience. Exhaustion that could not be solved by pushing harder. Her own burnout became the catalyst for a deeper exploration into the body, the nervous system, and the hidden patterns stored beneath surface level symptoms. What she discovered changed the direction of her life and work. Most people are not struggling because they lack discipline or awareness. They are repeating deeply wired physical and emotional patterns that the body has learned to hold onto. Today, Mandy helps people retrain those patterns at the root through fascia work, nervous system regulation, and embodied practices that creat…

Katia Sereno on Transformation Through Self Trust | 1,513 Katia Sereno is a transformational coach, wellness guide, and former elite performer who helps women reconnect with themselves in the middle of life’s pressure, transitions, and overwhelm. With more than 30 years of coaching experience, Katia brings a rare blend of resilience, creativity, and lived wisdom to her work. A former member of the Canadian National Synchronized Swimming Team and later a performer with Cirque du Soleil, she built her life around discipline, movement, and reinvention long before becoming a coach. Her journey has taken her across the world, from North America to French Polynesia, rebuilding her life from the ground up in multiple countries along the way. Those experiences deeply shaped her understanding of identity, change, and what it truly means to create a fulfilling life. Today, as a certified life and health coach, fitness instructor, and yoga teacher, Katia helps women who feel disconne…